Word: vain
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...some strange comfort on Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court surprised just about every legal scholar on the planet and said it would hear the Bush petition that these ongoing recounts were unconstitutional. The search for wise elders with a good sense of direction had so far been in vain; judges farther down the food chain had had their fairness challenged, even as they ruled for the Democrats one day, the Republicans the next. Maybe the nation's highest court would be able to guide us home. "The Supreme Court is the only decent way out," said a Democrat...
...religious conviction, a belief that the land they occupy was deeded to the Jews by God. It's an opinion few share. The U.S. has repeatedly condemned the settlers, and even within Israel, many see them as an obstacle to peace. "You are endangering yourselves and us in vain with your hopeless obstinacy," novelist A.B. Yehoshua wrote in an Israeli paper last week...
...Beusekom meekly skated out of the net in a vain attempt to force Shewchuk into a mistake, but Shewchuk undauntedly maneuvered to the left, past the young Princeton keeper, and fired the puck into the open...
...some strange comfort on Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court surprised just about every legal scholar on the planet and said it would hear the Bush petition that these ongoing recounts were unconstitutional. The search for wise elders with a good sense of direction had so far been in vain; judges farther down the food chain had had their fairness challenged, even as they ruled for the Democrats one day, the Republicans the next. Maybe the nation's highest court would be able to guide us home. "The Supreme Court is the only decent way out," said a Democrat...
Predictably thrown over by a vain Vidal, Charity soon lands in a broken elevator with a claustrophobic tax accountant named Oscar, played by John P. Keefe '01. Oscar's phobia takes on manic proportions and becomes oppressive. But once safely out of the elevator, Keefe provides a compelling portrait of a bumbling introvert looking for love, but does not develop his character any further. As the long first act ends, the audience is firmly rooting for Charity and her worryingly normal boyfriend...