Word: scrap
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...only one who likes datelines. Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair liked datelines so much that he’d put them in his articles even if he hadn’t visited those cities. My colleagues at The Crimson have managed to turn this little scrap of journalism into an art form. Among the unorthodox datelines I’ve seen on this page this summer are the abstract “THE INTERNSHIP LINE—,” the cryptic “THE MEZZANINE—,” the precise “SOMEWHERE...
...They’ll be more vibrant in their mental acuity, in their accomplishments, and they’re going to be very restive about being resigned to the scrap heap, about being put off to the side as extra baggage or detritus,” he says. “They’re going to be looking at things like this...
...among American politicians when it comes to energy policy. With great fanfare, lawmakers and Presidents--both Democrats and Republicans--announce sweeping plans to end or ease American dependence on foreign oil and find other stable sources of energy. When the headlines and television sound bites fade away, however, they scrap the programs, which then are often reintroduced to an unsuspecting public as new in later years by another generation of lawmakers and Presidents. But changing anything as deep-seated as America's habits of energy use calls for consistency and follow through, so the failure of Washington to stick with...
...office until the wee hours of the morning, fighting computers and news editors, watching the third repeat of the Atlanta Thrasher highlights on SportsCenter, hemorrhaging cash on road trips—and all, some might say, so that Tiffany Whitton and Jesse Jantzen get that extra clipping, a scrap of paper that could find itself in the trash within minutes of its arrival or, if kept, could find itself in a basement or a trunk, forever unloved, left to yellow and disappear. And even when read, the bylines are but obstacles, delaying the gratification that comes with seeing that...
...stepped into the leadership vacuum left by the regime's collapse have mostly avoided confrontation with the U.S. and British authorities, but continue to demand the right of Iraqis to govern themselves. The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq is particularly unhappy about Bremer's decision to scrap plans to elect an Iraqi interim government at a national assembly that would have been held in July. And they are complying with Bremer's order that all militia be disarmed by giving up their heavy weaponry, although they appear set, at least for now, to retain light arms...