Word: drag
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...imagination. But I'm attracted much more to the re-animated corpse hungry for life, which is the one that is common to most human mythologies. You can find them in Asia, you can find them in Europe, you can find them in America. (Watch TIME's video "Making Drag Me to Hell More Hellish...
...Bush administration certainly lost its reputation, as we saw clearly in the elections of 2006 and 2008. The administration’s opponents, who did their utmost to drag it down, now point to the result with unconcealed satisfaction, as if they were little innocents in the matter. But I do not believe that the American electorate turned against President Bush merely because they were misled by his opponents. They were misled by their own judgment. They thought him incompetent for starting an unnecessary war and then losing it; the problem was not that he acted illegally or wasn?...
...unrivalled ability to revolutionize their fields of study. We have won access to their minds, and they have enriched our own. We have sung for outstanding a capella groups, played for impressive sports teams, written for the most prestigious college newspaper in the country, and perhaps even dressed in drag for Hasty Pudding Theatricals. But just as empowering as those victories have been our defeats. Those strangers who arrived here four years ago were not likely to have faced failure–hence they were enrolling at Harvard. During our time here, however, we have had to learn to fail...
...beginning of the space race and sending U.S. policy makers scrambling to close the gap between the United States and Soviet Russia.Consequences of the Soviet launch would not, however, stay within Washington—the resulting effort to catch up to the Soviets would engage the nation and drag Harvard into an odd marriage of progressive initiatives and Cold War politics.The U.S. public and government perceived the Soviet victory in sending the first satellite into space as more than just a failure of its space agency and, instead, a failure of U.S. educational institutions to produce adequate numbers of scientists...
...million, first weekend 2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, $25.5 million; $105.3 million, second week 3. Drag Me to Hell, $16.6 million, first weekend 4. Terminator Salvation, $16.1 million; $90.7 million, second week 5. Star Trek, $12.8 million; $209.5 million, fourth week 6. Angels & Demons, $11.2 million; $104.8 million, third week 7. Dance Flick, $4.9 million; $19.2 million, second week 8. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, $3.9 million; $170.9 million, fifth week 9. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, $1.9 million; $50 million, fifth week 10. Obsessed, $665,000; $67.5 million, sixth week...