Word: reliefer
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...children, who's now in sixth grade, is severely dyslexic. It takes him an hour to write a paragraph by hand--but he's a demon typist. "It was as if he was playing on a level field for the first time," she says, and her relief is heartfelt. "For him, having that laptop was like being given wings...
...political science at Bangalore University. For many, Mallya could be the welcome harbinger of a new kind of reformer ready to storm Indian politics with private wealth and a pledge to clean up a corrupt system. For many others, though, his campaign is remarkable for one reason only: comic relief...
...case in September, when the Constitutional Court ruled that Muslim teachers have the right to wear head scarves in school. "I felt discriminated against for years," says the Afghanistan-born Ludin, who now works in a private Islamic school in Berlin, "and this decision comes as a great relief." But the Court also decreed that Germany's 16 states were "free to establish the legal basis" for a head-scarf ban. In other words, state legislatures could ban head scarves from public-school classrooms if they felt their presence interfered with the obligation to provide a religiously neutral education. More...
...video is not as goofy as Andre’s, which is a relief: Julian Casablancas has far less in the way of big hair, six packs or James Brown dance moves to show off. Instead, we get Casablancas wondering around a stage, looking like a younger, drunker version of Robert Smith of The Cure, whom The Strokes increasingly resemble sonically as well as in fashion sense...
...rival 24-hour locale 7-eleven, costumers were stunned to find out that CVS was now open around the clock. “Sometimes you need more than junk food,” says Michael P. Marotta ’06, who also expressed relief at being able to find paper clips and deodorant in the wee hours of the night. Brynn A. Bowman ’06 had better reason to frequent CVS over 7-eleven. “I like the people at CVS better than the people at 7-eleven,” Bowman shared, though...