Word: succeeders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is how sports are always supposed to work--as allegories for deeper human conflicts, not merely as displays of strength and skill--but what's different now is how desperately we need them to and how grateful we are when they succeed. While I don't feel entirely satisfied with the clever Solomonic compromise that settled the figure-skating issue (why not just chop the one gold medal in half?), I'm glad that the lofty figures behind the scenes finally acted. I'm tired of hung juries. I'm tired of not knowing whether Osama bin Laden...
Despite his relatively progressive instincts, it remains to be seen whether Abdullah will succeed in pushing his reform agenda past Islamic opposition. His efforts to bring the Kingdom into the World Trade Organization, for example, could help create jobs - unemployment is 15%. But the obstacles to membership include the country's slow progress in enacting commercial and insurance laws over the objections of Islamic traditionalists, who regard them as an affront to Shari'a, the rules of life handed down...
Sulca’s work is mysterious, but not secretive. If for nothing else, the tapestries succeed for their alluring shapes and colors, but their real beauty is in the stories they carry. Every tapestry displays a drive for the universal, without generalizing the circumstance of tradition. They are clearly meant for sharing...
Undergraduates with high enough soapboxes can counteract this tendency, Gomes thinks. He says that Summers’ goals of curbing grade inflation and decreasing the average age of Faculty members will only succeed with undergraduate support, which is a bold claim considering that students have little say in Harvard’s decision-making processes. But Gomes is sure that undergraduates are ultimately the most influential entity at the College. “The only way Summers has influence is by sucking up to students. And he’s doing it in such a conspicuous...
...Republican or undecided didn't change. "He doesn't have a lot of coattail," concludes a senior House Democratic aide. "But we've got to be delicate because the president is still wrapped in the flag." In the two dozen hotly contested House races that'll determine whether Democrats succeed, other polls show the swing voters would still carve Bush's face on Mount Rushmore for his handling...