Word: properer
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...into a wider political debate over how to reconcile the country's Muslim immigrants to French secular values. And while the number of Muslim women in France - indeed, throughout the world - who insist on a severe covering like the burqa is small, the challenge of staying slim and Islamically proper is not. (Will France ban the burqa...
...with any investigation. PNG Prime Minister Michael Somare has also called for a full inquiry into the crash. In 2008, Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Foreign Correspondent program revealed that 19 of most recent plane crashes in PNG, in which a total of 16 people were killed, none had been properly investigated. Sadly, it looks like it has take the deaths of another 14 people to prompt a proper inquiry into aviation safety in the country...
...month, and in my time here I have seen myself grow more and more “well tuned,” to use Iago’s words, to the art of politics. We learn quickly here how to court both professors and classmates, to attend the proper dinners and shake the proper hands. This is not specific to a particular group of students, either. Whether vying for President of the International Relations Council or admission to the Delphic, it is quickly made clear to us that we need to know the right people, make the right early moves...
...last spring and hauled along a suitcase of edibles, which included packets of dried herbs and berries prepared by my mother (and still sitting in my cabinet to this day). Shamefully, despite mastering made-from-scratch pasta sauce and somewhat authentic baklava, I had yet to prepare a proper Chinese meal when I left Boston this summer to spend a month at my boyfriend's home in Germany...
...launch - a vigorous introduction of the characters and motifs - and go directly to self-parody. We are told the main story takes place "In the not too distant future ..." If that recalls the first line of the old Mystery Science Theater 3000 theme song, you will have brought the proper attitude to the movie: it hardly needs wisecracking robots, for it not only carries the seeds of its own destruction but hands them out like a Burpee's salesman. An early scene, flashing back to 17th century France, plays like a lost Monty Python sketch. For its modern-day Paris...