Word: question
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...communication difficulties only reinforce my decision to have studied in another country. The impossibility of neatly fitting my life into one box, with one fully comprehensive circle of friends shows that, in a sense, I have access to two worlds. My life in the United States allows me to question the assumptions that Londoners, by nature, take for granted, and the breadth of perspectives at Harvard becomes apparent upon my return home...
...that leads to a big question about the stock market, which had run up more than 30% on the hunch that an economic upturn was imminent but has lately been exhibiting second thoughts, with trading volume sinking and major indexes slipping down through technical support levels, one after another. So investors rightly ask: Is it foolish to be buying stocks now, after the market jumped so high on hopes alone? (See the top 10 scared stock traders...
Similarly, Grace C. Ross '83, the Green-Rainbow Party's candidate for Massachusetts governor in 2006, said at the rally that she believed "there is no question Harvard has enough money" to avoid layoffs. Instead, she said, the University's administrators are all just "crying poor because they're no longer minting money on our backs...
...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cohort among the battle-hardened leadership of the Revolutionary Guards Corps. The war led to a significant militarization of Iranian society, and the Supreme Leader, a member of the 1970s generation, has drifted away from his contemporaries toward the military. Among the rumors and major questions emerging from the election was whether the rigging was a quiet coup, staged by the Ahmadinejad generation against its revolutionary elders. "It is an open question whether the Supreme Leader is really in charge or is just a front for the military, led by Ahmadinejad," an Iranian analyst speculated...
...events in the streets - especially the public death of young Neda Agha-Soltan, recorded on a cell-phone video - made it necessary, and appropriate, for the President to move in McCain's direction and use tougher language condemning the Iranian security forces, even if Obama continued to refuse to question the legitimacy of the Iranian government...