Word: bearings
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...Alaska Klub has also endorsed a candidate. The group bases its endorsements on a candidate’s willingness to participate in the Polar Bear Plunge, an annual swim in the Charles River after the first snow or frost, said co-president Robert J. Gage...
...Bear and Edwards went to different high schools. But when the two came to Harvard, Bear said, Edwards was still as spirited as before...
...very persistent and we were out there for four hours,” Bear continued. “And I remember being very happy because we each came home with 20 pounds of candy...
Four days after she was spared the lash but jailed by a Sudanese court for insulting Islam, British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons received a presidential pardon Monday and was deported from the country. But while her alleged crime - permitting her primary students to name a Teddy bear Mohammad - garnered the Khartoum regime a good deal of international condemnation for its radical justice, the charges against Gibbons and her famous bear were incidental to a larger struggle playing out in Sudan - the manipulation of Islam in the pursuit of personal and political power...
...began from an employment dispute at the school where Gibbons worked. Sarah Khawad, a former secretary at the school who had recently lost her job, allegedly dug up a letter Gibbons had sent to her students' parents in September informing them that each child would take home a teddy bear and record the evening in a diary. The class had named the bear Muhammad, Gibbons wrote. According to the sources, Khawad, a Sudanese citizen, encouraged two parents to register a complaint of religious outrage with the Education Ministry. When the parents declined, she allegedly registered the complaint herself. Khawad...