Word: rigor
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...easy complaint to make about “Invisible Girl” is that it is too fun. The thorough indulgence in pleasure often leads to a lack of rigor. The songs are not technically complex. All the songs except “Third Avenue” are in simple 4/4 time and most of the songs are based on a three-chord progression. King Khan and BBQ are by no means exploring new grounds in music through the album. But this, of course, was never their intent. They want to make music that?...
...attacks, I decided to make an intense effort to get to know the U.S. military. My education was turbocharged by General David Petraeus, who invited me to spend some time learning counterinsurgency at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., while he was leading the team that wrote the new doctrine. The intellectual rigor of Petraeus' team, their willingness - no, their joy - when it came to chewing over even the most unlikely questions were flat-out exciting. It was certainly at odds with the hidebound image of the military I'd grown up with. I became an auxiliary member of the counterinsurgency cult...
...that nothing—or “zero”—had then been established about how learning happens in the arts. Goodman accepted an offer to run Project Zero with the idea that it would combat assumptions about artistic practice and ameliorate the lack of rigor in cognitive investigations of arts education...
...questions I ask myself everyday,” says Hawrilenko, one of the world’s best heads-up limit hold’em players. “People don’t do a very good job of being honest or applying any sort of intellectual rigor to try to figure out if I’m doing good or bad—and that’s a big leak in a lot of gambling...
...first Bush Administration did) and imposing stricter sanctions against Iran. Neither path is likely. American Jews are among the Democratic Party's most loyal supporters, and Barack Hussein Obama probably won't want to encourage the fears, stoked by neoconservatives, that he is not a friend of Israel. The rigor of the Iran sanctions will be determined by the Russians and Chinese, who have not been willing to exert much pressure in the past. The President has stopped pursuing the European antimissile defense system, which should please the Russians - and he has reminded the Chinese that we face a common...