Word: mereness
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...Mekong Full Moon Party, this year's surprise Thai hit film about the Naga fireballs, a hapless television journalist is desperate to expose the phenomenon as a hoax. A month after the movie's October release, Thai television station ITV screened a documentary claiming that the fireballs were merely AK-47 tracer rounds fired by bored Lao soldiers on the opposite bank of the river. Mere coincidence? Or are strange, dark forces at work...
...imaginative exercise in oration incorporates more senses than just the visual. As Senator Dunay of the future moves Congressional masses with mere words, Harvard College first-year Dunay moves his lips, vocal chords, and hands, going through all the motions of the legislator par excellence he hopes to become. “Lying in bed at night, I’ll be talking to myself out loud,” Dunay says. “I guess we all think about what it would be like to be able to make a speech on the floor of the Congress...
...hard-earned money.” But what is the alternative? We all acknowledge that something must be done about the atmosphere that created these problems, but if not training and the monitoring of progress, then what? All that’s left are words. However, mere words cannot solve what years of action have done. Words are a beginning, not an end. If we as a nation wish to see true progress made in race relations, the first thing newspapers like the Daily need to learn is that “sorry” isn’t enough...
...enormous Middle Eastern arsenals. Coffee, sugarcane and cacao are all procured under brutal—even inhumane—conditions rivaling those of any diamond mine, but they are too essential to our daily lives to consider a ban. Instead, we have banned conflict diamonds, which make up a mere 3 percent share of the world diamond market. Basically, we’re willing to take a moral stance as long as it is convenient. So feel proud of the Kimberly Process if you want, just don’t feel too proud...
...printed an article about a communiqué in which al-Qaeda had sent a message to the allies of Washington's war on terror: Help America and you "will not remain forever far from the revenge of the mujahedin." Some intelligence experts believe messages like these could be mere posturing. Al-Qaeda may for now be content to use Europe as a safe haven for planning attacks against U.S. interests elsewhere in the world, as Atta's Hamburg cell did. But most investigators know they can't be complacent, especially because there are so many other indications of heightened...