Word: sevenths
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Harvard was ranked sixth on the list for "Best Academic Experience," and had the seventh-best "Quality of Life." Harvard also received the top rating for its libraries and was named the "Toughest to Get Into...
...Simpsons" garnered three Emmy awards, is only one of the hugely successful members of his Lampoon class. He, and his fellow Lampoon alums, make it in the end--and make it funny in the end--but the road there isn't always smooth. Think a Very Special Episode of "Seventh Heaven" but with a "King of the Hill" feel...
There is no doubt that the supporters of the bill have good intentions. And they are right in thinking that for most of the nation's history, courts have generally favored religious claims. Judges have ruled that Amish kids couldn't be forced to attend school and that Seventh-Day Adventists do not have to work on Saturdays. But that approach changed in 1990, when conservative Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a Supreme Court decision that angered and frightened many religious people. In Employment Division v. Smith, Scalia said religious claims cannot be used to justify violating laws as long...
...laws, where some protective coating, some layer of civilization, keeping Darwin's jungle remote, has been torn away. The local paper reads as if it had been written by a Jacobean playwright with a taste for black irony. A motorist crashes into the Independence Monument, it says, the seventh such fatality this year. More than 12,000 "ghost soldiers"--nonexistent employees--have been found on the Ministry of Defense payrolls. A Frenchman here to help Cambodia is charged with running a brothel full of underage boys...
...July 20, 1969, the day the astronauts landed on the moon, I celebrated my seventh birthday [SPACE, Aug. 9]. It is likely that I was more concerned with my birthday presents than with the historic event, but after visits to the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, Fla., I began looking at the moon with different eyes. Instead of a round circle in the sky, I see the hopes, dreams, blood, sweat and tears of the people who brought the space program to life. There is something about the moon that makes its exploration so much more real than...