Word: earnest
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...Green World, the fourth and latest album from folk singer Dar Williams, is a beautiful chronicle of self-realization, full of revelations and confidences. The simple rhythmic accompaniment, returning to a more folksy sound after her last effort "End of the Summer," showcases Williams' earnest vocals and beautiful lyrics...
...always Treasuries, which have thrived amid the interest-rate tension all summer. And the Dow is holding up rather well in a dour season. But the word on the Street is that NASDAQ will be back, one of these days. Maybe when this earnings season gets rolling in earnest later this month - what we're in now is called "pre-announcement purgatory," when the news is almost all bad - and some happier numbers come...
...Games. A lot of different circles were rounded off that night. Freeman stepped lightly into the water, and built a wall of flame around her. As the cauldron rose, the stadium was reverently quiet. Then Freeman walked out of the waterfall, and the crowd gave her this fervent, earnest, "Good on yer, Cathy...
...started thinking about all this, about how the Olympics had visited Australia and were now leaving the country better than it was before. I realized that you could make the argument, if all of this earnest testimony wasn't hogwash, that Cathy's triumph indeed was the most important sports performance since Owens', and was therefore in contention as the most important thing to happen in the world last week. You can go further: The most important thing to happen in the world in a given week hadn't happened in Australia since the first Aboriginal raft floated over...
While they have taken their names from the running before the search has even begun in earnest, many say these women were never strong contenders. Harvard, it seems, is poised to pick from within. Currently topping the list are Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and Business School Dean Kim B. Clark...