Word: somewhat
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...only been enormously productive—with no Internet to keep me permanently on the grid and more hours than I could hope for to read and sleep—but had also been enormously rejuvenating.Compare my experience to the awful—and what seems like somewhat typical—voyage my friend Ariadne took to see her sister in Madison, Wis. this past Thanksgiving.Because her flight was delayed two hours out of Boston, she missed her connector in Minneapolis. (For the record, only a plane would ever pass your destination on the way to taking you there.) This...
...military, already strained by wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has no appetite for a third war. That's true even if a series of strikes against nuclear and other targets inside Iran were carried out by the Air Force and Navy, the two services who have sat, somewhat frustrated, on the sidelines as the Army and Marine Corps has done the heavy lifting in the two wars now under way. Some Pentagon officials welcomed the new NIE as evidence that the intelligence community is not tied to ideology, as some critics argued was true during the buildup to the Iraq...
...disrupted by police force in 1968 and mobbed by the hundreds visiting then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in 1967 to demand answers about the Vietnam War. But by the year of their graduation, their inability to effect real social and political change had somewhat exhausted those who entered in 1963 so full of hope. The Vietnam War dragged on, with the worst yet to come, and the civil rights movement had made only superficial gains. “Few classes have entered Harvard with more faith in government (stirred by calls to action from a young...
...main challenge that Walker and the cast had to confront in their production was Grellong’s melodramatic script. The play’s complex intrigues come off as somewhat contrived—even though its story of publishing and plagiarism is not unfamiliar to Harvard—but the dialogue often rang even more false. Twice throughout the play, Elizabeth tried to win David to her side, telling him that unlike Chris, the two of them are “old inside.” Moments like this one, where the script was too self-consciously trying...
...swept Cornell (1-3, 0-3). “They rolled everyone,” assistant coach Christopher Miller said. “Not dropping a game is a hard thing to do.” Harvard came into the match following its somewhat lackluster 6-3 win over Dartmouth on Wednesday and was looking for an improved showing. “We were really intense and focused [Saturday] morning,” said sophomore Katherine O’Donnell, who won, 9-2, 9-2, 9-2, at No. 3. “We had to come out aggressive...