Word: rigeur
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...from being anomalies, U.S. intelligence failures of this sort seem to be de rigeur. During the Gulf war scores of Iraqi civilian buildings hit by American bombs were later admitted by the US government to have been mistakenly identified as military installations. In May of 1998 India's nuclear tests caught US intelligence completely unawares--the CIA was later faulted for having overlooked information clearly indicating the approach of the tests. In August of 1998 the U.S. launched missiles on a Sudanese pharmaceuticals plant based on CIA reports whose linking of the plant to terrorist activities has since been revealed...
...from being anomalies, U.S. intelligence failures of this sort seem to be de rigeur. During the Gulf war scores of Iraqi civilian buildings hit by American bombs were later admitted by the US government to have been mistakenly identified as military installations. In May of 1998 India's nuclear tests caught US intelligence completely unawares--the CIA was later faulted for having overlooked information clearly indicating the approach of the tests. In August of 1998 the U.S. launched missiles on a Sudanese pharmaceuticals plant based on CIA reports whose linking of the plant to terrorist activities has since been revealed...
...intriguing. Unfortunately, it gets spoilt by Ellis' penchant for proper nouns. For a book whose main character is so desperately au courant, the anachronisms and inaccuracies are enough to disturb. References are still made to the late Michael Hutchence, Winona Ryder still dates Dave Pirner, and the de rigeur Startac cellphone is misspelled. A deeper problem is the namedropping. Supposedly meant to satirize Victor's obsession with looks, one cannot help but feel that it just reflects the author's attraction to glamour...
...that alone? Has Harvard's sense of community really diminished so precipitously? Professor Frankfurter gives us some much-needed perspective: Agonizing over the university's spiritual well-being has been de rigeur for much of the "Harvard century," if not longer. The 1990s may be a bleak time in terms of civic engagement, but at least on a comparative scale, so too were the 1930s...
Dorm Crew workers also get the chance to meet one another in a more relaxed setting where t-shirts and shorts are de rigeur...