Word: mereness
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...amend its account. The soldiers hadn't put up the sign; the White House had done the hoisting. It had also produced the banner - contrary to what senior White House officials had said for months. In the end, the White House conceded on those details, but declared them mere quibbles. The point was, they said, that the whole thing had been done at the request of the crewmembers. Even that explanation didn't sit well with some long-time Bush aides. "They (the White House) put up banners at every event that look just like that and we're supposed...
...best journalism contains some art and the best art contains some journalism. Any nonfiction report on the world around us needs some art, in the form of narrative or metaphor or linguistics, to bring life to mere facts. Concurrently any work of art worthy of the name will report something new (either in content or form) to the audience. Joe Sacco, intrepid cartoonist, has been snooping around the borderlands between these disciplines for several years. His first important series, "Palestine," (1995) about life in the holy land during the first Intefada, gave us something radically new: a comic book that...
...women’s hockey were to stay with the Frozen Four, a mere 13 percent of its teams qualify for the playoffs...
...face, the reason for Harvard’s banishment of ROTC has moved beyond mere hatred of the military to a more legalistic one: the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. To put it clearly, the policy is clearly inconsistent with the University’s anti-discrimination policy...
...battle over ROTC is one where students’ rights have conflicted with one another. Those who deserve the right to freely associate with an institution that is, by and large, virtuous are put against those who abhor the mere existence of ROTC on campus. The only real effect of Harvard’s refusal to allow ROTC a larger establishment is to make life harder—much harder—for those cadets who wish to exercise their right to free association...