Word: pose
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...League athletics are rarely touted as the pinnacle of collegiate sports. Though Princeton and Pennsylvania occasionally pose a serious threat to opponents in the world of men's basketball, the rest of the Ivies seem to accept their status in and understand the ever-elusive nature of the NCAA Tournament. At Harvard, March Madness more aptly describes the flood of papers and exams before spring break...
Betty Friedan calls herself a "bad-tempered bitch." She is incommunicado before 10 a.m. She will not pose on a seesaw with her grandchildren for a photo ("too hokey"), and she is prone to temper tantrums. Yet sitting on the deck of her son's home in Philadelphia, grandchildren running around with buckets washing the family dog, she is comfortably in her element. "It's all about family," she says in that familiar gravely voice...
...easy-going and light-hearted style, famed novelist Saul Bellow read excerpts last night from his new novel Ravelstein to a large audience at the First Parish in Cambridge. He stopped afterwards to pose for pictures and meet with admirers...
...must ensure also that this global challenge is met with a global solution, for the heat-trapping gases warming the earth pose the same risk whether they come from the U.S. or from China. An agreement forged in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, with critical leadership from Vice President Gore, calls for strong action by industrialized nations. But developing countries must join...
Then consider ethics. More and more leaders of science and religion now pose this question: Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity and thus the creation? Look more closely at nature, they say; every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived for thousands to millions of years. It is part of the world--part of Eden if you prefer--in which our own species arose...