Word: virtualization
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...itself, the fact that it took place. Rarely had a U.S. President spent so long a time-a full week-in a foreign land. The visit, moreover, was to a country with which the U.S. did not even have diplomatic relations and which for two decades had been a virtual enemy. That paradox was obscured by the pageantry and (most of the time) by the warm atmosphere. As summits go, the meeting was a glittering technical success, stage-managed with precision...
...most cited piece of non-Christian testimony to the life and works of Jesus. Tacitus and Pliny mentioned Jesus briefly, as did Josephus in another shorter passage in his Antiquities. But Josephus' ingenuous paragraph appeared to be everything that Christian apologists could ask from a supposedly unbiased source: virtual confirmation of the basic truths of their faith. The trouble was, scholars began to object during the Enlightenment, that such a passage could hardly have been written by a nonbeliever, and had almost certainly been reworked by some pious Christian editor. As historical evidence, the Testimonium Flavianum, as the passage...
Round two was a virtual repeat performance of round one. Harvard swept the sabre events once again, but the point teams performed poorly. Foil man Don Valentine won, 5-4, but no one else in foil or epee could manage a win. The epee men dropped three straight to allow Penn to win the round and tie the match...
...would give the Crimson their sixth win against two losses, with a meet against Yale at New Haven concluding the regular season next week. It is, however, far from a sure thing. In fact, the meet is a virtual loss-up and could go either...
Luckily however, Nicholas and Alexandra has more going for it than just a generous budget. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, a man who is usually in solid control of his cameras and last year guided Patton to a virtual sweep of the Academy Awards (Hollywood likes to reward success). It also concerns a subject and a period that fascinates Americans: the Russian Revolution. Almost everyone west of Berlin shares various illusions about the nature of the Russian people, if only because Russia has always deliberately shielded itself from foreign scrutiny. The average American is eager to view...