Word: exaction
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...personal reasons, of course," he says. "I wouldn't be human if I didn't. But I also wanted it for the players and coaches and the loyal fans who have waited so long and been such good friends over the years." Seventeen years, to be exact...
...here in the hoop corner have a little unfinished business to attend to. Back in the previous year, December 19, to be exact, while the rest of us were busy packing for home or else long since departed, the women's hoop squad got no rest as they headed down to Princeton, N.J. for a four-way invitational tournament...
...painting a bunch of grapes so "real" that birds tried to eat them, the problems of illusion have been central to our sense of culture: How does one conjure up the presence of something that is not really there, and, once that is done, how do we know the exact limits of image and reality? We only see the dog in the corner or the Vermeer on the wall by mentally reassembling and interpret ing the stupendous variety of light waves reflected from them, but these light waves are not a dog or a Vermeer. Can one make...
...kind of volume appeared in New England: A Token for Children. The subtitle of America's first juvenile book was less inviting-Being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyful Deaths of Several Young Children...
...Ryan, a first-year student, says that Vanderbilt residents do their best to avoid competition but admits a certain amount is inevitable. "You're always around people who are studying the same exact things--sometimes it seems like you can't get away. At least in college when you get back from classes you can be around people who are doing a lot of different things. You can't do this a Vanderbilt," says Ryan, a Brown graduate...