Word: pairing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
However, the expression "we may have lost the battle, but we won the war" comes to mind. Short of a miracle, the Crimson has no chance of finishing the season at the top of the heap. But Harvard can take a small victory out of its pair of heart-breaking losses...
Still, there's a reason why the Big Divorce scenario isn't likely to work out, even by Y3K: we love each other, we males and females--madly, sporadically, intermittently, to be sure--but at least enough to keep us pair bonding furiously, even when there's no obvious hardheaded reason to do so. Hence, despite predictions of the imminent "breakdown of the family," the divorce rate leveled off in the 1990s, and the average couple is still hopeful or deluded enough to invest about $20,000 in their first wedding. True, fewer people are marrying: 88% of Americans have...
...question for the new century is, Do we love each other enough--enough, that is, to sustain the old pair-bonded way of life? Many experts see the glass half empty: cohabitation may be replacing marriage, but it's even less likely to last. Hearts are routinely broken and children's lives disrupted as we churn, ever starry-eyed, from one relationship to the next. Even liberal icons like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Harvard Afro-American studies professor Cornel West have been heard muttering about the need to limit the ease and accessibility of divorce...
...could, after all, get a pair of high-power binoculars and start spying on your neighbor tomorrow morning. But you won't. Not because you can't, not because it's illegal, not because you're not interested; to be human is to be a busybody. You won't do it because it is beneath you. Because you know it is wrong, and you would be ashamed of yourself...
...These external differences dissolved when the two took the stage. Mann and Penn bridged the gap between folk and pop. Their voices wove together seamlessly, as did their songs. As the pair bounced their unique take on life's little (and not-so-little) roadblocks off of each other's backing vocals, a unity emerged. The audience was watching two people who had found each other in the tumultuous world of music and used their spouse to magnify the truth inherent in their songs...