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...battle was like “American Idol” but with a hell of a lot more street cred. Six contestants took part in the veritable verbal skirmishes before an excitable crowd in three rounds. The contestants went head-to-head exchanging heated personal attacks...
...Yeltsin's to carry so much popular weight. Nothing if not spontaneous, Yeltsin demanded on live television last month that Gorbachev resign. Only a few short years ago, he would have landed in the Gulag for such an attack on the leader of the Soviet Union. Today a verbal assault on Yeltsin by Gorbachev's allies only seems to increase the Russian leader's standing among the people...
...have the security issue. We hope and certainly expect they will look to address this,” Baron said. Ewing said that ETS was monitoring students’ score levels throughout the world and noting any major changes that might signal a security problem. The GRE consists of verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and analytical writing. It is used to supplement undergraduate coursework in applications for graduate school and fellowships. Matthew T. Valji ’08, who plans to take the GRE this summer, said he wasn’t disappointed by the news that the test won?...
...rebels, Beah was forced into the army at gunpoint, constantly reminded about his parents’ murder and fed drugs that numbed the physical pain of his wounds and made it possible for him to continue fighting and killing. In one of the most outstanding emotional scenes, a verbal disagreement between Beah and his friends and soldiers recruited by the rebels soon turns physical, and Beah’s terse sentences build on one another to recreate the tension of the situation. The fighters on both sides, Beah says, were “dangerous, and brainwashed to kill...
...cocky contempt for authority led him to question received wisdom in ways that well-trained acolytes in the academy never contemplated. And as for his slow verbal development, he thought that it allowed him to observe with wonder the everyday phenomena that others took for granted. Instead of puzzling over mysterious things, he puzzled over the commonplace. "When I ask myself how it happened that I in particular discovered the relativity theory, it seemed to lie in the following circumstance," Einstein once explained. "The ordinary adult never bothers his head about the problems of space and time. These are things...