Word: soundness
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...part of the group that uses the euro, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown revealed a further pledge of $63 billion to partially nationalize the country's three biggest banks - a follow-through of his earlier approach that inspired the euro-zone plan. Ironically, Brown's quickness to act and sound tactics imbued the leader of Europe's most economically liberal and U.S.-inspired economy with the moral authority to urge his peers toward reform and greater regulation of their capitalist systems. On Tuesday Brown called for new international rules on trade, saying, "We must now create the right new financial...
...alcohol and drugs—many still make that choice based on an acute awareness of the image they’ll be presenting to everyone else. Many won’t drop their daily charade until they’re back, late at night, in the safe-and-sound suites they call home. When no one’s there to see us, we stop wondering how we look to the world, and the parts of us we try so hard to deny finally come...
...come to know our neighbors well here. Such is the reality of Harvard residential life, where paper-thin walls and N - 1 housing often force us to live a little too close for comfort. Since ancient wood paneling rarely functions as an effective sound barrier, we’re left little choice but to cohabitate, at least aurally, with the suite next door...
...This is not always the happiest of arrangements. As darkness falls and each Harvard student tromps back to his or her bed, desk and chair, the last thing many of us want is the sound of a near-total stranger taking up space. No matter the room number, from the River to the Quad, everyone seems to share a wall with the most absurd of characters. They scream at inhumanly high pitches, they cackle and guffaw, they blast ’90s pop into the wee hours (especially during Reading Period). Some of us respond in kind?...
...When I arrived at the monastery grotto, the only sound to be heard is the cooing of two white doves overhead, as if to emphasize the sanctity of the setting. Since just a few centuries after the dawn of Christianity, holy men have come to the mountains of northern Lebanon in search of solitude, although the attraction of the ascetic life may have faded somewhat in the modern era. Father Dario, a 73 year-old Colombian priest, took up residence at Hawka eight years ago, becoming one of just three hermits left in Lebanon...