Word: ponderousness
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Make no mistake; refusing a Harvard education to private-school students is a radical idea. Still, Harvard should ponder such a drastic measure, not as an affront to private schools but as a promotion of public education...
...While I still ponder the Olympic life I never led, it was on one of my final days in Beijing that I came to realize all that I would have been forced to sacrifice along the way. Shawn Johnson—the 16-year-old gymnast who had contributed to my intense retrospection the days before—joined NBC’s program, and I was assigned to take her on a tour of the Great Wall...
...railings. He stops and is quiet. Then he says, "Nature wins, doesn't it? You can't really compete with a few hundred million years of evolution." As we contemplate our mortality, I feel bad for judging him for quoting Keats; he has earned the right to ponder without having to amuse me. But then he adds, "Except spiders. Lose them. Nothing needs eight f______ legs...
...sides without landmarks, save for the black and red flags that mark the boundaries of the camp, the red sleeping tents and the heated main dome, a geodesic wooden structure that is the kitchen, conference center and overall heart of NEEM. The result is scary, when I ponder how tiny and isolated I am against this vast sheet of ice, a white void without plants, animals or even rocks. It's also really, really cool...
Alongside the nation's plague of spy scandals, Washington had another abuse of sensitive Government information to ponder last week. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige announced the dismissal of three unnamed employees at the department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. Their offenses: two were found to have used advance knowledge of the Government's quarterly estimates of economic growth for personal gain, while the third passed along the information for an outsider's gain. It was the first time ever for such punitive action. Said Baldrige: ''We have a duty to maintain credibility and integrity.'' The firings came after an eight...