Word: stamping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...real world champion? No one knows. Few think Ponomariov has what it takes. But Kasparov doesn't have FIDE's stamp of approval, and, besides, he lost to Kramnik in a non-FIDE championship match two years ago (since then Kramnik has managed to avoid a title rematch). "There's this terrible rift in chess," says Seirawan, who is also boycotting FIDE events. "The world chess championship is a disputed title...
...Chapman’s level, many do spend significant time and money to improve their children’s standardized test scores. Their reasoning is perfectly understandable. Parents want to provide the best for their children—and children who excel in standardized tests often receive a stamp of academic excellence leading to the finest opportunities...
Looking south away from Cambridge reveals a small residential community within a bustling city. Residential side streets cut across the commercial main drags. Three-family homes—painted white, yellow, mint green—line the streets and many have children’s toys in their postage-stamp lawns. Birds chirp above the ever-present sounds of the Mass. Turnpike, which was cut through Allston in the early 1960s...
...Settling in front of the tube one evening last week, residents of the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun thought they were about to watch a special about their rubber-stamp parliament in Beijing. They got some special programming all right?brought to them by the Falun Gong movement, Public Enemy No. 1 of the Chinese state. Hacker devotees had spliced their way into the cable system in Changchun, birthplace of Falun Gong founding guru Li Hongzhi, and broadcast to as many as 300,000 households. Stunned city officials held an emergency meeting and swore to punish followers "with no leniency...
...crackdown hasn't only targeted Falun Gong. A U.S. human rights organization last week publicized seven internal Chinese government documents that direct police not only to stamp out Falun Gong but to suppress unauthorized Roman Catholic and Protestant groups as well. The Vatican recently identified 33 Roman Catholic bishops and priests under detention or house arrest for maintaining allegiance to the Pope rather than to the Communist Party-approved church. And a Chinese court in December issued death sentences to five leaders of a 50,000-member evangelical Christian group?the South China Church?on charges of rape, although followers...