Word: vaines
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...worst of all, its scrawny "athletes" tilt at windmills and utter vain challenges to those of greater skill...
Predictably thrown over by a vain Vidal, Charity soon lands in a broken elevator with a claustrophobic tax accountant named Oscar, played by John P. Keefe '01. Oscar's phobia takes on manic proportions and becomes oppressive. But once safely out of the elevator, Keefe provides a compelling portrait of a bumbling introvert looking for love, but does not develop his character any further. As the long first act ends, the audience is firmly rooting for Charity and her worryingly normal boyfriend...
...President Clinton gesticulates in vain to get Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak back on a path to peace, the specter of Lebanon is beginning to loom over the West Bank and Gaza. Four Israelis and two Palestinians were killed in fierce clashes Monday, in a new escalation of violence that has followed Israel's decision last week to begin assassinating Fatah militia leaders it believes are orchestrating attacks against Israelis. Last Thursday's helicopter rocket attack on a local militia leader in Bethlehem reminded many Israeli commentators of their army?s tactics in Lebanon, and the association is an uncomfortable...
...material was Superman comics, a man who was a lousy father, an unfaithful husband and a wife beater, a guy who was reluctant to enlist in World War II, someone who never did a meaningful day's work in the last 47 years of his life, who was monumentally vain and cheap and mistrustful--became a national hero...
...stakes and high-standards test approaches for this year's sophomores, who must pass in order to receive a high school diploma. Several groups based in Cambridge have begun lobbying legislators and the state Board of Education to loosen or abolish the requirement. Their effort has not been in vain--there is a bill to that effect pending in the state legislature. In addition, at least 23 school committees around the state have formally stated their opposition to requiring students to pass MCAS to graduate, and the Massachusetts Association of School Committees will consider two similar resolutions when it meets...