Word: third
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...word from Austin is that if George W. Bush becomes our next president, he would like to appoint three blacks to high-level positions - Colin Powell as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice as National Security Adviser and a third person yet to be named. Powell and Rice would be serving in government posts more important than those held by any other African American - even in the Administration of a certain Democrat who bragged that he wanted his Cabinet to "look like America." That's a huge irony, considering that 92% of blacks slapped aside Bush's claim...
...What Women Want," Gibson plays an ad-agency executive whose brain gets rewired during a freak bathroom accident. Suddenly he can hear what women are thinking; hilarity and personal growth ensue. Before the film's third act - before he falls for his new boss (Hunt) and learns to relate to his teenage daughter (Ashley Johnson) - Gibson sends himself up. The character is a charming but politically incorrect brute, a role that Gibson has played onscreen and off throughout his career. A few years back, he got trounced by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation after a particularly nasty comment...
...high is decked out in the traditional pink dress and golden stole of ancient Rome. She bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students: "Salvete, omnes!" (Hello, everyone!) The kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. "How many people are in a duet?" High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, "Because duo is 'two' in Latin." High replies, "Plaudite!" and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. "Latin...
...Unfortunately, Enya's newest release, A Day Without Rain follows this trend. It follows almost song-by-song the same trajectory of Memory of Trees. Both have purely instrumental opening title tracks. The second song is a catchy made-for-pop-radio number, (in this case, "Wild Child"). The third is an imposing chant reminiscent of Gregorian monks, and a few plaintive songs and instrumentals later, the album ends with the catchy "Lazy Days," which corresponds almost exactly to "On My Way Home" on Memory of Trees...
...shared her work as the third speaker in the series, which premiered April 28 with a lecture by Kathleen Sullivan, dean of Stanford Law School. With auspicious support from the institution formerly known as Radcliffe College, the Lecture Series celebrates Radcliffe's new mission as an Institute for Advanced Study...