Word: semis
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This year, our semi-annual exchange might take place in person. The Pentagon has finally threatened to enforce of the Solomon Amendment, a law passed in 1995 that allows the Secretary of Defense to revoke Department of Defense research contracts and grants to schools that bar military recruiters from campus. Initially, the law had little effect, since colleges, law schools, and business schools received precious little in the way of military research grants and could sacrifice funding to protect their gay and lesbian students. Over the years, subsequent amendments and interpretations have expanded the scope of the Solomon Amendment...
...first novel is published and while his writing has acquired only a few affectations, his interests appear to have grown soggy with much sitting around sloppy cafe tables in the so-called Latin (it should be called American) quarter of Paris. He has chosen to immortalize the semi-humorous love tragedy of an insatiable young English War widow and an unmanned U. S. soldier. His title is borrowed from Ecclesiastes; his motto about "a lost generation, is from Gertrude Stein; his widow Lady Brett Ashley, from Michael Arlen's Green Hat. She is repeatedly called "a nice piece...
...some-magic-brownies-” or “hit-the-bottle-a-bit-too-much-” kind of way. No, I prefer my anthropomorphism tangible and intentional. From the maniacal Tickle-Me-Elmo to the evil little Furby, I like the lull of a disembodied, semi-robotic voice...
...semi-glorious season, you see, the paths of Harvard and pro football intersected in the biggest way. Sure, it may not have been exactly voluntary. And it may not have been ideal, for either party...
...cashier’s desk. Go to the Greenhouse. You get food; and then you pay. Go to Adams House. Pay; get food. The two actions are always separate. But Fly-By, like the aforementioned meat lasagna, has chosen to mush two good things together into a semi-unrecognizable mass of epic yuckiness...