Word: sterne
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...seats on to its advantage.“We didn’t make a mistake—it was a pretty steady move for them,” junior coxswain Kevin He said. “For the last 500 of the race, they were about bow to stern with us and we were able to hold that margin pretty consistently. They weren’t ever able to walk away from us, and we were able to walk back a bit at the end. I thought that was really encouraging for us.”The Crimson varsity...
...Left. ("Political correctness," he said in a 1999 speech at the Harvard Law School, "is tyranny with manners.") When Michael Moore came to the actor's home and confronted him, for the climactic scene of the 2002 pro-gun-control documentary Bowling for Columbine, Heston looked both gracious and stern, perplexed and frail. In movie terms it was an unfair fight, because Moore had the heavier artillery: not his arguments, necessarily, but his camera and the power of an editor over an actor...
...benefit of the doubt. Its wide, generous fairways mean the outcome is rarely predestined from the tee. What matters is the endgame - the approach shot and, most crucially, the chips and putts on its devilishly slick greens. This is not to say that Augusta doesn't provide a stern test of a golfer's resolve - a particularly demanding three-hole stretch is known as Amen Corner - it's just that this test is predicated on the principle that a person should have multiple opportunities for redemption...
...only would halting deforestation drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it would save the most ecologically diverse and valuable land on the planet, home to animals and plants that can live nowhere else. Charity alone, as we've seen over the past several decades, won't be enough - the Stern report, a British government study on climate change released in 2006, estimated that it would take $10 to $15 billion a year to slow deforestation. That's well out of the range of philanthropy, but not if we choose to recognize and capitalize on the market value of forests. Canopy Capital...
...your leisure time, you most likely enjoy fun, which is why you most likely did not enjoy any of R.E.M.'s past three albums. If memory serves--and the thick layer of dust coating 1998's Up, 2001's Reveal and 2004's Around the Sun is a stern warning to let it--these records paled in comparison with R.E.M.'s earlier, essential material but were right on a par with Woody Allen's recent output. Which is to say, there were vestigial hints of artistry but a disturbing lack of purpose and energy. Facing the age-old choice...