Word: archaicisms
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Several experts in leadership and higher education said that an inside candidate is particularly attractive at an institution with as archaic and complex a governing structure as Harvard...
...array of sensations can come over a person fumbling with the water knobs in the shower: a sudden chill, perhaps, or a burning blast. French architect Jean Nouvel reacted on a higher plane. "There's something archaic about turning knobs to make water run," he says. "The[an error occurred while processing this directive] controls should be something you caress rather than manipulate." Thus Nouvel, who designed such innovative buildings as the Torre Agbar in Barcelona and the newly opened Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, had found another design challenge. Upscale home-furnishing stores are now rolling...
...publishers. Yahoo signed 176 papers for a deal to post classifieds online, and Google is helping an additional 50 use the Web to sell their ad space more efficiently. That's a crucial development because the recent stagnation in print-ad revenue has been aggravated by the industry's archaic sales system, which has made it difficult for small businesses to buy space in the nation's 1,200 dailies. Google will help remedy that. But the story won't end there. "The word newspaper is going to disappear," says Scott Bosley, executive director of the American Society of Newspaper...
...nationally branded) restaurants to the Square. If the HSDF. actually wants to make Harvard Square “something different” than the rest of the world (as then-HSDF president G. Pebble Gifford told The Crimson in 1996) then it must move past its archaic and irrational positions. In the mean time, we thank the City Council for advocating more sensible policies. We hope that as Mayor Reeves and many councilors expressed on Monday night, the Licensing Commission will rethink its Byzantine rules in the months and years to come. The Square might be losing Toscanini?...
...cricket in the early '90s, Warne discredited the prevailing view that the only way to rout batting line-ups was to bowl fast at them. With his growing mastery of what had been the dying art of leg-spin, he reminded us that batsmen could be killed softly with archaic weapons like flight, drift and spin. Compatriots of yesteryear wish he'd arrived sooner. "If we'd had Warne," says former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson, "we'd have held our own against the great West Indian sides...