Word: semi
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...Hamden, Conn.“We’re frustrated, but when you look at the league, we did just play the one, two, and three teams,” captain Dylan Reese said. “In my mind, we outplayed two of the teams evenly and were semi-even with the other team.”Harvard will return to the ice against Union this Friday night at the Bright Hockey Center.HARVARD 2, QUINNIPIAC 2A hard-fought tie sounds oxymoronic, but the Crimson will take it given that Harvard rallied from a 2-0 deficit against the Bobcats.The...
...1830s, evidence began to accumulate that the extended solitude was leading to emotional disintegration, certainly in higher numbers than in communal prisons. In 1890 the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, deploring solitary confinement for the "semi-fatuous condition" in which it left prisoners. The case was narrow enough that its effect was merely to overturn a single law in a single state, but the court's distaste for the idea of solitary was clear. "The justices saw it as a form of what some people now call no-touch torture," says Alfred W. McCoy, a professor of history...
...rare stretch of paved road is announced by a sign bearing the President's face and the slogan GLORIA CARES. In many villages, government troops are dug in behind sandbags and razor wire. Three hours later, we transfer to trail bikes and roar along deserted tracks to a semi-derelict logging shack. Waiting there are five N.P.A. soldiers with M-16s, who guide us through the darkening jungle to a camp lit by flickering oil lamps. "The comrades are very excited you're here," says a voice from the gloom...
...Among the politically semi-aware, screeds like these are the new chain mail. Their viral propagation makes them an incredibly powerful means of preaching to the choir...
...Even on the slopes, however, it's hard to escape current events. The political crisis between the Lebanese government and the Hizballah-led opposition that has turned the capital into a semi-permanent protest zone has also scared off foreign tourists, a crucial part of the economy. Bookings are down by as much as 60 percent from last year at Skileb, an online ski package operator that deals mostly with foreigners. Although skiing represents only about 10% of Lebanon's tourism market, Lebanon's economy is under such duress after the past summer's war with Israel that the country...