Word: mereness
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...Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) had a mere two slots on the Loeb Mainstage for undergraduate productions this past fall--the board got eight applications for the two openings...
...envelope. All week I had longed for this moment when we could declare our love to the State, God and any compilers of statistical information. This was a declaration that, unlike marriage, could not be voided for at least 10 years. This was indeed a far greater commitment than mere marriage. Unfortunately, my girlfriend didn't buy any of this either...
Even more controversial are attempts to patent not whole genes like CCR5 but mere snippets, such as ESTs (expression sequence tags) and SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms). Incyte, for instance, aims to patent more than a million ESTs. Such patents, says American University law professor James Boyle, are "fishing expeditions"--reeling in fish they don't know what to do with...
Americans have grown stupid and confused about the meaning of fatherhood. That stupidity is the reason, in this case, that mere politics has been allowed so casually to override what should be a reflexive respect for the father's place in the picture. Such respect has vanished in the incomplete American transition out of, er, patriarchy. Americans operate as if fathers were secondary and essentially dispensable. The destruction wrought by that premise is strewn about the landscape--in the form of crime, drugs, suicide, family misery...
...down a compound of believers in Texas, incinerating a number of the faithful. So the attorney general, her eyes behind bottle-bottom glasses looking like enormous, startled fish in an aquarium, proceeds with the anguished metaphysical doubt of one who has seen the Fire. What is the Law of mere Caesar in the face of Faith and Passion...