Word: semi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Teixeira. "I think Hillary still annoys them." Few things could excite the passions of the "vast right-wing conspiracy"--as Clinton once called her husband's enemies--or motivate the Republican base more than the prospect of a President Hillary Clinton. "I'm one of the few in the semi--inner circle who don't think she can win," says Ickes, a close Clinton ally who was deputy chief of staff to her husband in his first term. "It would be a brutal, bruising fight. It would make this year's race look like kindergarten...
...glimpse of the dizzyingly fast-paced social life of a serial womanizer. Jude Law has the clothes, the car, and the looks to get any girl—and he does, with an endless string of paramours ranging wildly from an aging cosmetics empress (Susan Sarandon) to a flighty, semi-psychotic teenager. But the car is borrowed, the suits were on sale, and beneath Law’s charming smirk is a calculating mind. Alfie has no warmth or romanticism, despite his British charm. The movie captures his gradual comprehension of that emptiness surprisingly well. His self-discovery is aided...
...positively, especially to the lines “New England has the foliage / But I’m not goin’ back,” despite the fact that the lyrics are more dismissive than praising. The joy of hearing their region name-checked by one of its semi-prodigal sons outweighed the actual message, or perhaps all that could be made out way in the back of the club over the dense, effects-heavy guitars was the name of the locale and not the message attached...
Students who wish to dine with faculty already have some options. Most Houses offer semi-annual student-faculty dinners, and students can also take advantage of the Meal Voucher Program, which allows professors to eat with students in dining halls for free. But Rosen said he felt that an alternative was needed...
Mackenzie credits her ease on the rink to her father—a Canadian native who played semi-pro hockey after high school in the IHL—and his constant advice and companionship through her experiences with youth hockey. Now at the Division I level, Mackenzie is doing her part to vicariously fulfill a dream of her father...