Word: vaines
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...with chalk, Happy saw her changed reflection and became distressed. Nussbaum says this is possible evidence that elephants have some degree of self-awareness, and experience a wide range of feelings and emotions. She did not say, however, if Happy was simply self-aware or straight up vain. Audience member and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology Steven A. Pinker, however, maintains that different standards apply. “We don’t worry about foxes hurting bunnies the way we worry about what’s happening in Darfur and Iraq.” Panelist Cass...
Before senior running back Clifton Dawson waited in vain yesterday to hear his name called in the NFL Draft, the next classes of the Harvard football team played in the annual Crimson-White spring game, the first night game in school history, held Saturday evening under the lights of a rain-soaked Harvard Stadium...
...victims, mourners vowed to heed their leaders' calls. But the true sentiment of the crowd was revealed as the coffins were carried on a sea of upturned palms from the mosque to the adjacent cemetery. "Don't worry, Ziad, your blood will not be spilled in vain," they chanted, and "There is no God but God, and Nasrallah is the enemy...
...them to the coast of England for six weeks. After crossing the Atlantic by a southerly route and reprovisioning in the West Indies, they headed north, expecting landfall in the third week of April 1607. Instead they found a tempest. For four days they sounded, seeking offshore shallows in vain. Then, at 4 a.m. on April 26, they saw land. The three ships sailed into Chesapeake Bay and found, in the words of one voyager, "fair meadows and goodly tall trees, with such fresh waters running through the woods, as I was almost ravished at the first sight thereof." They...
...Presidential campaign gets off to a fast, early start, the notion of tweaking the mental health laws rather than pushing gun control legislation in vain has its obvious appeal, particularly among centrist Democrats who are hesitant to alienate the gun lobby in key battleground states. In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre none other than former President Bill Clinton, who in the past has blamed some national Democratic party losses on the gun control debate, has added his voice to a chorus of others this week calling for a different approach. When Larry King asked Clinton Thursday about...