Word: toning
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...stem cell research this memorandum provides, however, researchers and the public should remember other possible sources of stem cells and types of research for disease treatment. Given the divisiveness of this issue, support for non-embryonic stem cell research should also remain. Fortunately, this memorandum will set the tone for all types of scientific research throughout the administration. “I would simply say that this memorandum is not concerned solely—or even specifically—with stem cell research,” said Harold Varmus, chairman of the White Houses’ Council of Advisors...
...didn’t...it was a big win for him”In spite of a determined showing by the Golden Eagles, it was the Crimson who claimed the doubles point in style.At No. 3, the sophomore-freshman partnership of Aba Omodele-Lucien and Manghan set the tone with an 8-5 win over the Marquette’s Niko Boulieris and Jonathan Schwerin. The point was sealed by junior Michael Hayes and freshman Alistair Felton at No. 2; the duo combined to save numerous break points, before Hayes’ delicate volley consigned Dusan Medan and Rutherford...
...lower voice that was complemented by the fullness of her upper register. She also gave a most entrancing dramatic performance, especially in the opening of the fourth act. The title role of Otello was sung with gusto by the tenor Brian Landry, whose commanding stage presence and intensity of tone provided a compelling portrayal of the general. He did a marvelous job of conveying the rapidly changing emotions that Otello experiences over the course of the production, but sometimes these shifts were overly dramatic. His singing, which occasionally pushed his voice to its limits, was by and large an impressive...
...repeatedly shouted the racial slur at random. The first baby to do so popped its head through a hole in the board, babbling incomprehensibly and occasionally saying the word “nigger” very clearly. She was joined by a second baby who took an angry tone with his gibberish and exclamations of “nigger.”Two screaming babies followed and eventually two more joined them. Their disagreement was silenced when one baby snorted a great throaty wad and spit it right into another baby’s face. The babies all spat...
...dumping Fidel loyalist Felipe Perez Roque as Foreign Minister and replacing him with a career diplomat, Raúl may be signaling a less political and more flexible tone for Cuba's foreign policy apparatus. Perez Roque, 43, a former personal aide to Fidel, is a pugnacious communist doctrinaire often referred to as Fidel's pit bull, more suited to El Comandante's policy of confrontation with Washington. (He once called himself part of the Cuban "Taliban.") His successor, Bruno Rodriguez, who had been Perez Roque's No. 2, is by contrast a more bookish foreign service veteran, a former...