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...sake, get up and cheer.Principle 2: The definition of a cheerWhen someone starts a cheer, you cheer. That’s why it’s called a cheer. It’s one of those words that is a noun, but it’s also a verb, and the two are really close in meaning, just different grammatical meanings. So, like you cheer, a cheer. It may sound like I’m speaking to five-year olds, not the distinguished Harvard students that we all are. But moving away from the land of books to the land...
...most frequently used words so you could see their context. John McCain may seem to have a smoother delivery style, but it turns out that his is less fluent than Barack Obama’s. McCain would often stop in the middle of a sentence or leave out a verb, while Obama’s more frequent pauses were always followed up by a completely formed idea.The software program takes care of most of the analysis, but it’s up to the guys to pick out the trends that the computer identifies and to change from one program...
...thought to have performed well and with discipline in what seemed like an endless series of Democratic debates. Most memorable was the line with which he took the sheen off one-time GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11." Democrats realize that with Biden, they are likely to see some occasional errant punches. "I hope so," says one Obama adviser. "Because that will mean he is swinging...
...Talmudic and Biblical languages, translated the tablet, which is written in the form of an end-of-the-world prediction by the angel Gabriel. What may make the tablet unique is its 80th line, which begins with the words "In three days," and includes some form of the verb "to live." Knohl, who was not involved in the first research on the artifact, claims that it refers to a historic first-century Jewish rebel named Simon who was killed by the Romans in 4 B.C., and should read "In three days, you shall live. I Gabriel command...
...fast, say some Christian academics. "It is certainly not perfectly clear that the tablet is talking about a crucified and risen savior figure called Simon," says Ben Witherington, an early-Christianity expert at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky. The verb that Knohl translates as "rise!," Witherington says, could also mean "there arose," and so one can ask "does it mean 'he comes to life,' i.e., a resurrection, or that he just 'shows up?' " Witherington also points out that gospel texts are far less reliant on the observed fact of the Resurrection (there is no angelic command in them like...