Word: sobering
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...Republican hawk who had been carrying water for the White House on war with Iraq, saw the political advantage for Republicans backing the president on a national security issue just before hotly contested midterm elections. But graybeards like Hyde worried about the pitfalls. He and many of his more sober-minded colleagues needed to be convinced. By the time he returned to Washington early this week Hyde had already decided to begin hearings the week of September 23 to consider the administration's case...
Americans will pause on Sept. 11 to commemorate the sober occasion in many ways. Around the world, too, the date will be remembered. In Allentown, Pa., William Allen High School students will dedicate a 35-ft. mosaic depicting symbols of the events. Volunteers in San Francisco will unfurl artist Pop Zhao's 5-mile-long banner comprising 3,000 American flags and string it along the city's coastline. In Berlin German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder will attend an ecumenical service held in the Berlin Dom. Citizens of Anchorage will be able to make free long-distance phone calls to loved...
...most of this year’s new material came from newly appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby, who delivered a more sober and specific address, mentioning a number of the issues he was brought in to tackle...
...students will need to play their part as well, Kirby said. Harvard has been known as a serious, sober institution, and remains so to an extent, Kirby said...
...film tropes (an army of monsters may be chasing us - let's hide in the cellar!). But Signs is, after all, a chamber piece, handsomely acted by its small cast, in which two sets of siblings must learn to be their brother's keepers. This makes the film a sober, superior thriller. - By Richard Corliss...