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Word: ushered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...soon to tell if Sept. 11 will usher in a new era of moral seriousness, an end to the age of anomie and irony. But if Messud’s superb novel is any indication, our inanity and self-delusion may be more enduring than we think...

Author: By David L. Golding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frivolous Lives, Interrupted | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...until Dec. 16 at the Agassiz Theatre.The shorter “Trial by Jury,” a courtroom comedy in which a would-be bride sues her former groom for breaking off their engagement, opens the performance. As the Judge (Arlo D. Hill ’08) and Usher (Evan D. Siegel ’07) drool like idiots at the sight of the dolled-up Plaintiff (Christine K. L. Bendorf ’10), the jury heckles the Defendant (Roy A. Kimmey ’09), and no one questions the unfairness of the trial, not even...

Author: By Madeline M.G. Haas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Pinafore' Cast Sets Sail to Success | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...reality, of course, is that neither scenario is likely. Fixing a timeline for withdrawal isn't going to usher in a prelapsarian period of tranquility any more than it will make the violence worse. The presence of U.S. forces will have no impact on whether Iraq goes to war with itself, because it already has. If the U.S. declares that it plans to leave Iraq, it's safe to assume that almost nothing will change. The war will continue and more people will die. Setting a deadline would at least ensure that no more Americans will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Phony Argument Against an Iraq Timetable | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

...taking some strange comfort in the fact that France's hooligan problem is limited to Paris. Under pressure from a public outcry, PSG said it was closing a 2,000-seat section where ultras gather. That's certainly preferable to its previous policies of appeasement that granted salaried usher and security jobs to notorious hooligans in the hopes they'd keep their chums in order during games. But it's far from the decisive eradication the situation merits. Indeed, PSG fans say the section closure will only get the thugs moving to other spots in the Parc - whose video surveillance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Confronts Soccer's Vicious Underside | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

It’s got a dis track (targeting Cam’ron, among others), a number of poppy songs like “Anything” (featuring Usher) and “Hollywood” (featuring Beyoncé), a pacing like that of his last albums, and stellar production by such notables as Just Blaze, the Neptunes...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEW MUSIC: Jay-Z, "Kingdom Come" | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

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