Word: righting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...darkest moments of our post-Vietnam experience, U.S. Army General Bill DePuy visited Israel. It was right after the 1973 October War, when Israeli forces defeated a series of massed Syrian armor attacks on the Golan Heights. This was a climactic battle, and the victory was close and costly...
Admissions officers say the most successful essays show curiosity and self-awareness. Says Cornell's Saleh: "It's the only thing that really lets us see inside your soul." While there's no one right formula for soul baring, there are many wrong ones. It's disastrous to write, as a Rice applicant did, of what he could "bring to the University of California." A self-absorbed or arrogant tone is also a guaranteed turnoff. Exhibit A: a Rice essay beginning, "I have accumulated a fair amount of wisdom in a relatively limited time of life." Exhibit B: a Cornell...
That Chris Gaines thing was a sign. Now we have confirmation: GARTH BROOKS is in midlife crisis. Brooks told record-industry magazine Billboard this week that he and wife SANDY "both agree that we need to get divorced... Right now we're focusing on the impact it will have on the children and how to handle that best." Brooks, who more or less announced his retirement from music last year to spend quality time with his family, said he might now make another album, but he doesn't exactly sound like a man brimming with confidence. "Making music always does...
Osment, now shooting Steven Spielberg's A.I., is a new old pro. "I read the script one night before I went to bed and knew right away it was good, quality material," he says. "It left me feeling empowered with this mission that maybe that sort of thing is possible...
...word of English and flunking first grade to being the top reader in her class a year later. Adults began wearing badges that say HEY, WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? Tammie Smith, principal at Northside Elementary, has parents coming in an hour before the start of school, "taking tests right alongside their kids...