Word: yet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yet those 17 million readers, and a blogosphere that often seems to consist mainly of links to New York Times articles, show that there's still a desire for an arbiter of truth. The idea that I can believe it because I read it in the Times was never 100% true, nor was it true for any other news organization. But the paper represented a certain baseline of agreed-on information. If that no longer exists, what distinguishes a news report from an e-mail rumor your uncle forwarded...
...grow in a dark warehouse. A week or two later, the finished product is popped out and the material rendered biologically inert. The company's first product, a green alternative to Styrofoam, is taking on the packaging industry. Called Ecocradle, it is set to be shipped around a yet-to-be-disclosed consumer item this spring...
...smoldered. All told, 37 people were killed and close to 100 wounded in the attacks, which came amid rancorous sectarian debate over Iraq's looming elections. Looking back, I'm gripped by the scent of oranges cutting through the smell of charred vehicles and flesh: tart, from fruit not yet ripe, shaken early from the trees by the blast and scattered amid the debris...
Each April, Dean Fitzsimmons announces a freshman class more ethnically varied than any previous one. Ethnic diversity has become a justifiable, if crudely expressed, obsession for Harvard and its peers. A separate, if related, diversity is that of nationality—yet this seems to be a more secondary concern. Less than one in nine Harvard College students comes to us from abroad...
...Yet, just as the constitution of The Crimson reflects the growing ethnic diversity of both the Harvard College student body and the United States itself, the newspaper remains a deeply American institution. Only four of the 137th guard’s 95 executives—with apologies to an editor who hails from London, England but was principally educated in Manhattan—went to high schools outside the United States. The troubling conclusion is that The Crimson is less than half as international as the student body as a whole. It would be irresponsible at best for the leadership...