Person, place, or thing

Alumni, many still in their mid-20s, serve as principals at scores of charter schools.

South Korea has said Iranian oil imports will resume next month after a two-month boycott at levels that comply with U.S. sanctions. Salon (Aug 23, 2012)

Browning, however, evidently considered him nothing more than a successful charlatan. Clarke, Helen Archibald

Condiments take up an entire counter: Balsamic vinegar, rapeseed oil, sweet chili sauce and blue cheese dressing. Seattle Times (Aug 3, 2012)

How would you like a dissertation Brown posted about rinsing out his mugs?

Those words mark an epoch in the history of thought. Various

"This photograph and the one at Gold's are facsimiles," said he thoughtfully. Weyman, Stanley J.

The Republicans are struggling this year to balance party factions.

Some Atlantic coast refuges are already taking steps to offset flooding and habitat loss from rising seas. Scientific American (Aug 22, 2012)

O’Rourke: How much do you think about being an iconoclast in TV? Slate (Jun 15, 2012)

At times, we couldn’t help but feel a bit like interlopers. New York Times (Apr 13, 2012)

In this chip-on-the-shoulder draft, Baldwin has found a new group of kindred spirits. Seattle Times (Apr 28, 2012)

Transportation in New York City is at once universal and mysterious: a familiar, well-worn labyrinth with an encyclopedia's worth of idiosyncratic tendencies and tidbits. New York Times (Jul 6, 2012)

The city, once called a laid-back pensioners' paradise, is a fast-growing, rapidly changing metropolis. New York Times (Jul 16, 2012)

Biological nomenclature

Following World War II, lawmakers forged a pacifist constitution.

He was recognized early as a prodigy, paid to give erudite speeches on free enterprise and constitutional limits while still in high school. New York Times (Jul 30, 2012)

The arguments were on display this week in a symposium at Oxford University, which recently set up on the issue.