Word: saving
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...Paul is a true Renaissance man," said HCS President David J. Mitby '01. "This is the kind of guy who understands the need for students to save money on textbooks, organizes its publicity campaign and, as a bonus, can tell all of us CS-folks that the search is an NP-complete problem that was solved with special optimization...
...Feeney, like the rest of the country, wouldn't have minded if the U.S. Supreme Court had swooped down from Washington to save him from this particular spot in the history of partisanship. But the bell never rang, and Feeney's House stayed right on schedule...
Guess whose brother just happens to be in the Himalayan neighborhood, eager to save the sister who has not forgiven him for Dad's death? Now try to guess why Scott Glenn signed on to play the shaggy, half-mad old man of the mountains honchoing the rescue. It is the year's most ludicrous character part in what is likely the year's most ludicrous action movie...
...been said that in America during the fractious 1850s, before the Civil War, Walt Whitman entertained the wistful, urgent conceit that his great poem "Leaves of Grass" might save the Union. It would show Americans that despite their divisions they were one great nation. Montaigne, almost three centuries earlier, worked a variation on the theme. Rising above dogma and abstraction, he would pursue the general human truth by studying himself - and such generalized self-knowledge, the recognition of their human selves, might relieve people of their inclination to kill one another for religious reasons...
...course writers often have the delusion that their work will save the world. Maybe it will not, but weighing positives and negatives, writers probably have a better record on that score than politicians do. In any case, I would rather read Montaigne than listen to either Gore or Bush. And, to the extent possible, that is my policy this week...