Word: warned
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...talks on Turkish accession to the Union. A report this week by the European Commission is expected to be sharply negative about Turkey's membership prospects, partly because Turkey has not agreed to open its ports to Greek Cypriot ships. If Turkey does not budge by December, E.U. officials warn, membership talks may be suspended. Last week, plans to hold a summit on the issue had to be abandoned because of an unwillingness to compromise by all sides. The E.U.'s Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn, has called the prospect of breaking off membership talks with Turkey a "train wreck...
...tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection. Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done...
...group pasted up signs announcing a $500 "reward" for every gay man or woman killed during the parade, which is scheduled for Nov. 10. Several ultra-orthodox rabbis have vowed to mobilize more than 100,000 protesters to shut down Jerusalem on the day of the parade, and police warn that some groups plan to pelt the marchers with apples jagged with razor blades...
...can’t stop thinking about this moment in an episode of “The Colbert Report” I watched over the summer. But something about traditional distinctions between high culture and low culture seems to warn me against bringing up a television show—whose most substantial legacy thus far has been coining the word “truthiness”—at my first meeting with a scholar of 20th century literature and art as prominent as Suleiman...
...frustrating to lose, and lose often, and so I can see why you might feel that Columbia football is disrespected by other schools, and by your own newspaper and administration.But the real reason I’m writing this is not to defend you. It’s to warn you, or fairly appraise you of what I (and many of my football-writing colleagues) can and can’t do.I can recognize zone coverage. I can recognize man-to-man, and I recognize blitzes. I know that as a punt returner, you plant your heels...