Word: proving
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Surely there are ways that we can think about making educational reforms. Yet purging our souls of postmodernism is undoubtedly the wrong way to go about affecting change. We'll have to wait to see whether "postmodern" will prove to be a useful and enduring literary term. But Paglia's use of the word as an expression of her own vague disgruntlement-however justifiable or unjustifiable her anger may be-does a disservice to the issue she would like to address. As a means of discussing problems within our educational system, grumbling that everything has become too "postmodern" just doesn...
...This win-win deal has something for Bill Gates, too. In Washington's federal courthouse, lawyers for Microsoft have jumped at the chance to prove that it's a volatile world after all. How can you have antitrust regulation when that kind of conniving is going on? "This proposed deal pulls the rug out from under the government," said top Redmond attorney William Neukom...
...round, bald Cooper suggested that Al Gore might try to copy Bill Clinton's formula for success and have an affair, then dismissed it with a riff on the media's skeptical reaction. "How do we know?" he had scornful reporters saying. "There's no DNA on the dress! Prove it!" Alone among the contestants, Cooper could do passably good imitations, including of Clinton and Gore as teenagers smoking pot. "C'mon," the easygoing Clinton says. "Let's get some pizza and listen to Eat a Peach." To which the uptight Gore responds, "I am freaking out! My mother...
...torpedo the competition. Will Disney-Pixar's entomological epic A Bug's Life run for cover under the nearest anthill? Will Babe: Pig in the City, the squeal--sorry, sequel--to the 1995 surprise hit, turn out to be so much baloney? In December, will The Prince of Egypt prove to be a hit of less than biblical proportions, and Mighty Joe Young less than all-righty...
...division of Johnson & Johnson plans to test-market Benecol in January and hopes it will prove as popular here as it has in Finland. The smooth yellow spread has been sold there since 1995, and stores have had trouble keeping it in stock, even at prices six times that of ordinary margarine...