Word: signaller
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...believe in. On Feb. 17, the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 is scheduled to go into effect, and one of the great technological monuments of this country, one that has endured for 68 years, will be rendered obsolete. I speak, of course, of the analog television signal...
...feel to be asked by Obama to play such an important role in the Inauguration? Overwhelming, humbling, joyful. So many of my poet friends and I were hoping that he would decide to have a poem at the Inaugural, because we felt that it would be a signal of his own evident value of the possibilities of language. What we have is his understanding that the arts do have a place in day-to-day life, that poetry can still us - that is, let us pause for a moment and, as we contemplate that careful, careful language, hopefully see situations...
Andrew Hatch, the former Harvard quarterback and LSU signal-caller who briefly started for the Tigers in 2008 after transferring to LSU from Harvard the previous year, is planning to transfer back to Harvard, the Associated Press is reporting. But according to Harvard's admissions office, the well-traveled athlete might not have a spot reserved for him back in Cambridge...
...lives. It can be as simple as going out to dinner. Some people think that is a luxury, and other people think that it's a necessity. I think that things like that should come up and do come up early on. I think that something that simple can signal a whole lot about the way people value their money and what they do with...
...Liberti says Putin's use of energy as a political tool - and his recent defiance of Europe and the rest of the world in Russia's military clash with Georgia - may signal that the Russian leader believes he risks little more than short-term trouble in making internationally unpopular moves that serve his interests. Liberti also suggests that the winter freeze and the assumption of the E.U. presidency by the Czech Republic, an ex-Soviet satellite, may have added to Putin's motivations. "Putin is reminding Europe [that] Russia's a force to be reckoned with, and that its position...