Word: speakes
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...neighborhoods grew quickly and without any zoning ordinances to speak of. "Our only rule was that your home page had to be consistent with the neighborhood," says Bohnett. In other words, if your site is in the "Pines" section of "Silicon Valley"--which happens to be dedicated to software browsers--your page is supposed to be about software browsers. Volunteer police squads and GeoCities staff members try to root out the occasional pirates, hate-mongers and pornographers, with modest success...
...reflection on language, however, that deserves most attention. Throughout the novel, the power of words, as well as the notion of meaning, constantly comes into question. In the beginning, Pella confesses that she relies on her mother for words that serve as an "antidote" to her father's political speak. In a conversation between Efram and Pella's father Clement, this very speak implies the threat that Clement represents for Efram's power. Toward the end, Efram dies specifically because of the accusatory, lying words a child utters about him. This causation becomes clear a moment before his death. When...
...contest's rules do not specify whichlanguage the participants must speak. Matthew A.Carter '99, who is also a Crimson editor andresident of Dunster House, recited a selectionfrom Virgil's "Aeneid" in Latin, although heprovided a translation to the judges...
Invited to speak by the Woodbridge Society of International Students, Scheffer laid out the conditions that favor establishing an international court. He said that since the end of the Cold War the U.S. has been able to pay more attention to the prosecution of war crimes...
...thing to support the president's public policy goals and another thing to let him get away with things that undermine the long-term interest of the country. It is particularly important for progressives to speak clearly against these excesses. If we do not, we will have forfeited our right to object when imperial tactics are deployed on behalf of future presidents whose policy goals may not be as plausible as Clinton's. JEFF BOOK '81 Beverly Hills, Calif., April...