Word: semi
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...long will it take us to drive our brand-new Jeep from Sweet Valley High School to Sweet Valley University? Other installment series feature girls who seem eternally trapped in ninth grade—there is no sense of linear time, but there are a whole lot of winter semi-formals. The success of McCafferty’s three Jessica Darling novels has proven that not all college-bound English majors are brushing up on Chaucer the summer before they leave for school. The author was among the first to acknowledge the unprecedented level of obsession many American high school...
...such as George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Senator Barack Obama. Some of the world’s largest entertainment companies have also joined forces behind this initiative, including MTV, Walt Disney Studios, Entertainment Weekly, and USA Today. The Film Your Issue ThinkTank will judge the entries and select semi-finalists, and these films will then be opened up to voting by both the public and the VIP Judges. In addition to awarding a paid internship at Walt Disney Studios as the coveted first prize, Film Your Issue will broadcast the top entries in each category on mtvU and showcase...
...pundit in the debate about global warming. “I’m interested in depolarizing [the debate] and distorting people’s preconceptions about the issue,” Van Cleef said. Her store’s location in Inman Square fits well with her semi-political message, she said. “Especially in this neighborhood, I feel like I’m preaching to the choir,” she added. “It gets great pedestrian traffic.” The store, according to Van Cleef, has sold around 50 pieces of clothing...
...Hopefully, this isn’t semi-autobiographical...
...while Jaafari went to London); like Jaafari he owes his position to the backing of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Both men have been accused of having a sectarian outlook despite their public embrace of national unity; both are Iraqi nationalists who oppose the dismembering of Iraq into semi-autonomous mini states; both would also abide by the wishes of Iraq's leading Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who helped pave the way for this deal...