Word: standardly
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Could the same standard be held up for men? Would men feel the obligation to denounce any show in which the male characters acted inanely of showed some weakness? Would men categorically denounce Seinfeld because Kramer is a little "off" or Frasier because he appears a bit effeminate at times? Nope, not a chance...
...moresuccessful in her studies because of such societalmisconceptions. "I have to be more responsible andwork harder because as a black student, I feellike people who have not had much exposure toblack students think I represent the blackcommunity," she says. "So I make sure that I set ahigh standard...
...there is the chronic pain of the Middle East peace process. Arab leaders have no love for Saddam but they oppose dropping more bombs on Iraq because from their perspective, Clinton has a double standard. He relentlessly pursues Saddam's weapons of mass destruction while saying nothing about the atom bombs everyone assumes Israel has stashed in its basement. The Arabs believe Clinton is less likely now than ever to buck Congress and his own party by browbeating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a deal...
Well, look out below. The ponytailed tomboy queen of the downhill is back, running on Picabo Standard Time. A human cannonball at 5 ft. 7 in. and 158 lbs., she recovered from her injury about twice as fast as most people would have. But most people don't have Olympic gold as the top item on their list of unfinished business. Street has lately zoomed close to her world-beating form, posting a fourth-place finish in a World Cup downhill at Cortina, Italy. But her comeback took a scary detour in a downhill last Saturday at Are, Sweden, when...
Admittedly, not every crossword puzzle is deserving of such epic compliments as those lavished above. In discussing "the crossword puzzle," I am thinking specifically about a particular puzzle which is the standard of all solvers, that published in the New York Times. According to the Times's puzzle editor, Will Shortz, the Times first published a Sunday crossword in 1942--the last of the big general interest newspapers to do so--and began the daily puzzle in 1950. He credits the ironic success of the late-arriving Times's puzzle to the newspaper's current status and to the innovations...