Word: proofing
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...author with such a nuanced command of language would resort to clichés so elementary in composition. Volpi rounds out his scattered and unsatisfying account of 20th century history with a flurry of fictional accidents and tragedies that he seems to downplay as simple “proof of the irrationality of the future, the name we humans give to entropy.” Perhaps Volpi diminishes the significance of his character’s individual tragedies for the very purpose of making his point, but his failure to give us any reason to care about the characters...
...women in this rural village in the Indian state of Gujarat were members of the Self-Employed Women’s Association and are living proof that economic development and women’s empowerment go hand in hand. We were a group of Harvard affiliates in a group called the Alba Collective that hopes to sell products made by SEWA members in western markets. As we sat on the floor of a two-room house, the women told us their stories...
Taitz, Orly • further "proof" that Obama was born in Kenya is presented...
...issue, The Crimson ran an ad questioning the truth of the Holocaust. In it, Bradley Smith, the founder of an organization which calls itself the “Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust,” asked readers if they could “provide, with proof, the name of one person killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz...
...just A Beautiful Mind or Proof either. In Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Kumar wins over his long-lost girlfriend when she's about to marry his arch-rival, by reciting the poem that she had tried to get him to read aloud when they first met (and made out) in a library...