Word: semi
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Creationists are laughable—most people with a semi-rational approach to the world and half a brain will agree on that. To engage the particulars of the creationist position is to implicitly grant it a level of credibility and legitimacy that it does not deserve...
...sends the eighth-needed Crimson into a Friday night semi-final at the Boston Garden with top-ranked Clarkson. The Golden Knights advanced last night by defeating Colgate, 7-4, in Potsdam, N. Y. Number-two Northeastern, which came from behind to topple St. Lawrence, 4-3, at Northeastern Arena, and third-seeded New Hampshire, which held off Providence, 4-2, in Durham, N.H., will meet in the other semi-final game. The ECAC finals and consolation games will be Saturday, also at the Garden...
...even the bitterest of adolescences can turn sweet with the passage of time and the onslaught of nostalgia. Author and filmmaker Dai Sijie proved this when he hit literary gold in 2000 with Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, his semi-autobiographical tale of discovering literature and love as a member of China's lost generation. Now Dai, who spent 1971 to 1974 exiled in a village in the mountains of Sichuan province, has directed a big-screen version of his fable, The Little Chinese Seamstress (naming it "Balzac," one suspects, wouldn't sell tickets...
Deep in Brazil's semi-arid interior, at the climax of a trip designed to show his cabinet the country's crushing poverty, newly elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mounted a makeshift stage and, like a lead singer introducing his band, presented his ministers to the crowd of 7,000. Polite applause greeted the parade of bureaucrats - but then Lula called on his Culture Minister and the applause turned into a roar. For more than 30 years Gilberto Gil has been one of the two biggest pop stars in Brazil - a man whose music...
...handful of Dins also set the scene for a Wellesley formal when they were singled out to be in a partner-switching dance sequence. Lane D. Levine ’06 found himself “stepping on a lot of feet,” including the semi-celebrity toes of a soap opera star, while Jay R. Minga ’05 experienced considerably greater body contact in an experience he describes as “terribly memorable...