Word: seemly
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...professor-student ratio is very advantageous for the students [in the German department]," he said. "The cards seem to be stacked against...
Parties that the club hosts are currently being touted as "open to everybody," but the feasibility of such a goal seems tenuous. It would seem that any purely social organization that requires an application process, as the Seneca says will, will inevitably result in exclusion, however "open" the process might initially be. And while last week's "get-to-know-us" barbeque in the Lowell House courtyard was a nice public introduction of the organization, the influx of members from two other female social clubs, the Delta Gamma sorority and the Bee, a female final club, does nothing to reassure...
While Gore's aims can seem mushy, his methods are not. In a White House whose first reflex is to try to talk every problem into submission, Gore's instinct is to send in the Marines--or, lately, the Air Force. In Haiti the Vice President took on the skittish tacticians who fretted over the risks of invasion and the futility of trying to salvage a country that even in its better days was a social and environmental disaster. Citing the very real danger of waves of refugees hitting the Florida coast, Gore contended that "what was at stake...
...exile so he could rescue her struggling husband in 1994, Tipper hasn't been shy about telling her husband to snap out of it. And Tipper has been doing more than fixing things inside the Gore operation; she's also been fixing things on the outside. Just when Gore seemed to be running out of steam on the stump, Tipper has been pretty much everywhere, talking about Littleton on Larry King Live, acknowledging to USA Today and the Wall Street Journal that she has suffered from depression, traveling around the country to push mental-health reform. If it didn...
...Crimson op-ed published the week afterthis year's Cultural Rhythms, Fowler and co-authorKamil E. Redmond '00 said the festival exoticizesthe cultures it portrays by making ethnictraditions seem like amusing novelties withoutexplaining how these practices fit into theirperformers' complex, modern identities...