Word: subjection
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...wonder whether Michael Kinsley's imagined description of ABC executives' using "a crack of the whip" on the gaffe-prone African-American actor Isaiah Washington was simply an unfortunate use of a cliché or evidence that even those who take it upon themselves to analyze gaffes are still subject to perpetrating them. I agree with Kinsley that we should all be able to shrug off the stupid things people say (or write), but I found his use of a potent image of slavery in this context to be ironic, to say the least. Michael Zimmer Los Angeles...
...subject line is always in all caps and has about a thousand exclamation points. It's very subtle...
What's the subject line like on one of those e-mails...
Both of these initiatives are part of Bok’s ongoing efforts to study methods to improve undergraduate education, a subject about which he has written extensively. In his 2006 book “Our Underachieving Colleges,” Bok devotes a chapter to the subject of undergraduate writing, drawing from a four-year study conducted by Sommers between 1997 and 2001. The study tracked the writing of 400 students to “gain a better understanding of the role writing plays in a college education,” according to the Expos Web site...
...super, and her mom. Zoë has spent time chilling out in the closet to avoid detection, and Laura says she might cover the cage with a towel during the next room check. Morgan M.W. Jessee ’09 sums up the general feeling on the subject, saying pets are okay with her as long as they’re in miniature: “Little ones, nothing that is going to poop all over or anything.” True that...