Word: uglier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Kick-off at Columbia is at 1:30 p.m. I’ve already seen what happens when Harvard’s defense isn’t ready to play, but it’ll be uglier next weekend if the Crimson isn’t ready for its early afternoon battle...
...heartfelt hymn for peace at home and abroad. The most moving speeches were those condemning the acts of intolerance toward Muslims or those of Arab or South Asian descent. It would be a great shame if the horrific tragedy of Sept. 11 makes America an uglier place for citizens of any ethnicity or religion to live. Fortunately, all of our political leaders have echoed these sentiments, and anyone who has taken the time to discuss these acts has agreed that they are unacceptable and un-American...
...Tennessee the tax debate got even uglier. Republican Governor Don Sundquist lobbied his legislature in June to impose the first-ever state income tax. Antitax protesters, egged on by a talk-radio host, surrounded the capitol, banging on the doors, throwing rocks through windows and scaring legislators into dropping the new tax. Instead they used the state's $560 million share of the national tobacco settlement to balance the books. More than a dozen states have tapped rainy-day funds or tobacco money...
...Machiavellian, if he were guilty of something far worse than adultery, might behave exactly as Condit has. That is, he might use an apparent ineptness at public relations, combined with grudging revelation of the affair with an intern (tacky, but comparatively innocent, under the circumstances) to mask an infinitely uglier offense. This would be misdirection of the kind Dwight Eisenhower practiced almost half a century ago, when he addressed his press conferences in fuddled syntax that allowed reporters and other great intellectuals to go away joking about what an idiot Eisenhower was. Ike wanted them to think that; he wanted...
...treasures of the Courtauld Institute lie within its ornamented corridors, and its well-proportioned courtyards house handsome offices, restaurants and shops. Canaletto, along with other artistic admirers, painted a view of its sweeping façade along the Thames. When we look across the river at newer, uglier office blocks, we realize Somerset House represents a kind of perfection that succeeding generations did not - could not - improve upon...