Word: preferable
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While I tend to prefer the traditional, sweaty, push-your-way-to-the-front experience when it comes to live rock, the people who pick the MFA shows understand that they’re not running a mosh pit. The mellower music on the calendar tends to be a perfect fit for the more sedate setting...
...think of myself as a spirit disguised in a human body,” Glück told the audience. She recounted that, when a translator asked her which gender she would prefer to be used in a Polish version of her poems, she answered: “Whatever makes the best of the pronoun, so that pronoun speaks to a human experience, not to a female experience...
...script. If Lucas wants to save the movies, he had better hire some of the writers who helped him turn the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones films into the smart, action-packed and interestingly plotted films that we all love. Georgia Manry Portland, Oregon, U.S. Those who prefer film over digital images should awaken from their chemically induced haze! Digital is faster, cleaner, more versatile and incredibly fun to work with. In the hands of a true cinematographer, digital moviemaking exhibits all the soul, humanity and feeling of a production shot on film. None of those attributes are inherent...
...taken into consideration under the legislation, although the federal list would ostensibly reflect a school’s affordability, Casey said. Moreover, the legislation’s $200 increase in Pell Grants isn’t sufficient, some higher education advocates say. “We would prefer a bill that focused on providing greater assistance to low-income students,” said Barry Toiv ’77-’78, a spokesman for the Association of American Universities. “While this bill helps a little bit in that regard, it really misses an opportunity...
...have backed the Special Court's request to move Taylor to Europe-a place Taylor himself has said in the past he would prefer to be tried. The big donors are spending millions rebuilding Liberia and Sierra Leone and both understand the sensitivities of holding his trial in the region. The U.S. may have balked at the idea if it meant transferring jurisdiction to the International Criminal Court, which Washington does not support. But no matter where the actual trial is held, control of the case will stay with the Special Court, which Washington sees as a model for future...