Word: texted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...throat. The political use of religion should appeal to this leftie who's still a practicing Catholic. Or how about the threat of climate change and the waters rising over Moore's Manhattan home. What if he were to blend the two issues? He could take as his text this quote from God, straight from the Bible: "I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth...
Harvard has, in recent years, tumbled from the lofty climes of dynasticism to rude meritocracy. Apparently, whoever slaves over each page of text with the most ardor wins. Only the campus’s social scene maintains the admirable vestiges of ages past, wherein an arbitrary elite is permitted to exclude undesirables, leaving them to commiserate in the street over the drunken, menacing friends they might have made. The latest permutation of this base competitive construct is CEB Risk, bringing all the cold calculation of war to an already-cutthroat Cambridge...
...come back to reality," iParadigms CEO John Barrie says of the copyright suit. "These aren't nuclear-missile secrets." Papers are being archived at the same time as testing sites install cell-phone detectors to keep students from text-messaging answers or finding them online. One result of the high-tech cheating wars: paranoia. McCabe says fewer students are filling out his anonymous surveys. "Students started accusing me of getting their IP address," he says...
...hope my inference is clear. The A’s go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often...
...rape” once simply meant “to take by force.” The directors addressed the issue directly in the program, writing, “As the predominant connotation of the word shifted over time, [the playwrights] Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt adjusted the text to make it extra-clear that ‘rape’ in this context means ‘abduction…seizure…kidnapping.’” The directors were correct that the meaning of the word changed, but the change occurred in the 15th century...