Word: profoundity
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...almost broke down. Water fountains became cruel jokes. But I made it to 5 p.m., and Kauble did, too—despite having four pounds to go at 11pm when I talked to him on Thursday. My stats? Six pounds in 24 hours, and a startlingly profound respect for people who’ve mastered such a feat, especially with a 2,000 meter race the following morning. “See?” Kauble told me later, after downing his post-weigh-in snack of a Snickers and a giant Gatorade. “It really works...
...president’s pay provoked a protest this past July from then-Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper. “In my judgment, your 2004-2005 conduct, implicating, as it does, profound issues of temperament and judgment, merits no increase whatever,” Harper said in his resignation letter...
...notion was simple and profound: corral some of the world's finest cineastes and ask each to make a vignette of life in one of the 20 Paris arrondisements (neighborhoods). The only requirements: the episode must be five to seven minutes long, and must have love as its subject. It might be the love of two strangers colliding on the streeet; of a woman for her dead child; the rediscovered devotion of a man thinking of leaving his wife; an engaged couple testing their bond in Père Lachaise cemetery; of a couple long separated and replaying their cutting...
...What about claims of a nascent insurgency? I don't believe that. To fight an insurgency in Timor you need profound motivations-otherwise you don't last long. But the situation is still very tense. The population of Dili is stressed. There are all sorts of rumors...
...Fold’s ave et vale, as reported by The Crimson, was the profound and prosaic “kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye.” This appears to also be an expression of the way in which his group and its associated support structures would treat the people in this place who have little power and less voice. And this is the banner under which undergraduates wish to “reclaim the Yard...