Word: somewhat
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...access. Still unknown is how the burglars entered the Thayer and Mathews dormitories in the first place. But had there been universal key-card access, it is possible the thief would have never been swiped into a dormitory building, and granted entrance into the rooms of the unsuspecting, and somewhat nave, first-years...
...Bashar, as ordinary Syrians are calling him, or "The Hope," in official usage, is single but has a girlfriend. He is courteous, somewhat shy in public, but fluent in English and a lunchtime regular at Damascus' posh Club d'Orient. Though he was recently promoted to colonel in the Syrian military, the svelte heir apparent favors powder blue suits over camouflage fatigues. Bashar has taken charge of policy in Lebanon and spearheaded an anticorruption drive, but he is best known on the street as chairman of the Syrian Informatique Society, which is striving to wire isolated Syria to the Internet...
...late 1991, AKIO MORITA, a colleague on the Trilateral Commission and a longtime friend, told me he was concerned about the state of U.S.-Japanese relations. In the wake of a series of high-profile acquisitions of American properties, including Rockefeller Center, by Japanese companies, Japan bashing had become somewhat of a national sport in the U.S., and a tone of superiority had crept into many public pronouncements emanating from Tokyo. Akio proposed that the two of us attempt to counter this trend through "dialogue" that would be taped for TV and then published in Japan. His purpose...
Standing out among all the possibilities of live animal ingestion, goldfish swallowing has emerged, in American historyoand specifically in Harvard historyoto be a unique American pastime. Always somewhat behind the scenes, this simultaneously awe-inspiring and repulsive act made you cringe in "A Fish Called Wanda" and probably yak on your lei at the Owl Luau. But in fleshing out the vague tradition invoked by these modern-day incidents, the fact is: Our experience constitutes the wriggling tail end of an intensely popular fad of the late 1930s...
...chance to put it away but didn't," Murphy said. "I'm not going to underplay it. It's somewhat devastating from an emotional standpoint...