Word: semi
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...discovery of Junior's body. As Gail tries to help her husband, Nora talks incessantly, theorizing about calling 911, about the seriousness of Junior's bruises, about her relationship with Gail and her other two daughters. She talks Junior to his feet and leaves him, bloody and semi-conscious, to dance while waiting for the ambulance...
Unfortunately, the deal-breakers squaring off on opposite sides of the North Atlantic are among the least affected by the possibility of rising temperatures and swelling seas. According to projections by the United Nations, Bangladesh could lose up to 16 percent of its land area to the Indian Ocean. Semi-arid parts of North Africa and Southern Europe could become deserts. But agriculture in Northern Europe and the North Great Plains would most likely boom in the event of warming--a longer growing season coupled with easier shopping due to less ice in the Great Lakes means the northern latitudes...
...shouldn't be an impossible sell. Few of this pageant's judges - the wide and semi-passionate center of the electorate - believe that either Gore or Bush is trying to "steal" the election. Most are sympathetic to the idea of manual recounts, and those who followed the story over Thanksgiving weekend probably have some sense that the manual recount in Palm Beach, at least, did not get a fair shake. (Certainly a smirking Katherine Harris did Bush no p.r. favors by getting needlessly stingy with a legally flexible 5 p.m. deadline...
Competition between different classes for the limelight of a city explains the endless rivalries present in baseball cities such as New York and Chicago. Even The Crimson's rivalry with a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square organization can be attributed to different types of writers jousting for prominence on campus...
This is the also slow season for concerts, which might explain why any semi-famous person is selling out shows. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones I can understand-this is their hometown after all. But Bruce Hornsby...