Word: amidst
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...cold February day, across the frozen Charles River, in the belly of the Bright Hockey Center, a Harvard coach made a promise. Amidst a crowd of witnesses, men’s hockey skipper Ted Donato ’91 gave me his word. And here I sit, two months later, my graduation date in sight, and Donato is nowhere to be seen...
...Amidst the bustling traffic on what is known as the “JFK bridge,” it is easy to overlook two plaques that dedicate the structure to Nicholas Longworth Anderson, a graduate of Harvard in 1858 and soldier in the Civil War. His son hoped the bridge would be “an ever present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater.” Similarly, Soldiers Field, where student athletes practice every day, was named in honor of Civil War veterans...
...idea of stipends funding these “peer” relationships harkens towards a tête-à-tête that is more murky than it is efficient. The boundaries between adviser and advisee are a vague distinction that is thoroughly conflated in the Peer Advising program. But amidst all the confusion about who’s actually in charge, the original task at hand has suddenly been masked—what is to be done with this overwhelmed Harvard neophyte? And will his dicey peer have the answers to all of his questions?FRIEND OR FOE?...
...Netherlands in over two decades—isn’t entirely worthless. Still, he puts too much of “Showgirls” (his 1995 softcore porn hit) into “Black Book,” and the sex doesn’t quite fit amidst the violence and squalor of the Dutch resistance in WWII. Call me a prude, but when a pretty Jewish girl is steeling herself to seduce an SS commandant, I don’t need to see her give a quickie to a fellow resistance member after waxing her pubic hair...
...also worth mentioning their frenzied, lawless nature. Packed into narrow dirt allies, people hawk food products while others manically bustle about, crates held upon their heads. Others lie on the roads, attempting to sleep amidst the chaos. Walking along these roads results in sensory overload as you are jostled to and fro, being incessantly badgered for rupees. Yet nowhere can be found a uniformed official attempting to maintain any semblance of order...