Word: reigns
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...supposedly drawn in the 18th century, argue critics such as Li Xiaocong, a cartography expert at Peking University. "It's simply not logical," says Li, "to use a map drawn in [Emperor] Qianlong's time to prove the existence of a map that might have been drawn during the reign of Yongle"?some three centuries earlier, in the Ming era. Li adds: "We don't even know if that Ming map existed...
...between the sociological and scientific academic spheres. Harvard’s pre-medical students are inarguably some of the brightest young scientists in the world, but there is also a population of dedicated and innovative students in the social sciences who strive to help alleviate HIV’s reign of terror. By bringing these two groups of students together in a class that interests them both, Harvard is creating a pool of interdisciplinary scholars that will prove invaluable to the pursuit of medical progress.And that, Harvard, is real intellectual sustenance. Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson...
...Diplomats fault the Mission for its reluctance to accept the full scope of its mandate, which allows it full reign to enforce peace - one even called elements of the UN force "wussies...
...there's a circle of Hell - or Heaven - for comic misanthropes, Durang would reign (or serve) there. The author of many zippy sitcoms about domestic and social outrages now turns his thoughts to the afterlife, in an endearingly meditative farce about Veronica, a depressive woman who commits suicide in the year 2000 ("At least I got to miss 9/11") and lands in a sort of limbo, where she is reincarnated as, among other things, an abused child and a dog. Veronica is played by the dimpled Kristine Nielsen, whose performance is less depressive than manic; she orates her grudges with...
...violence?Israel responds to the Munich massacre by assembling a team of covert operatives, headed by ex-Mossad agent Avner Kauffman (Eric Bana), to locate and kill Black September’s Palestinian backers. Kauffman is given a list of targets, an amply funded Swiss bank account, and free reign to dispatch the terrorists according to his discretion.Kauffman and his team approach their task with a sense of righteous purpose. When the team’s “clean-up specialist” (Ciarán Hinds) remarks, “It is strange to think of one?...