Word: becking
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...Staff writer Richard S. Beck can be reached at rbeck@fas.harvard.edu...
...small actions add up in a community of thousands of people,” she said. “Even if we decrease consumption by 1, or 2, or 3 percent, it’s already making a huge difference.” Psychology Department administrative staffer Celeste M. Beck, who is William James Hall’s building representative to the Green Campus Initiative, said she is trying to raise awareness of the competition. “It’s a challenge to change behavior, but it does make a difference,” she said...
...could bring me down to standard RP, or make my voice more Estuary - a loose term for the London accent that spreads into surrounding counties and is loathed by many for its supposed sloppiness. I'd have to turn my "ow" into more of an "aow," my clipped "beck" into an open "baaack." That means I'd be taking the opposite journey to My Fair Lady's Eliza Doolittle ("It's 'aoow' and 'garn' that keep her in her place," sings Professor Higgins, lamenting Eliza's way with words like "oh" and "go on"). So I have a choice...
...president, although the final decision will be made by the nine members of the search committee, who are all members of the Harvard Corporation or the Board of Overseers. The undergraduate members of the student advisory group—Whitney S. F. Baxter ’07, Katherine A. Beck ’08, and Vivek G. Ramaswamy ’07—are the College representatives of the group, whose members are from all schools of the University, except for the School of Dental Medicine and the Extension School. Matthew J. Murray, a joint-degree student...
...that Abe, who visited Yasukuni in the past and has questioned the validity of the Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, will worsen the damage. "There's a lot of apprehension in Seoul and Beijing about whether Abe will be as hard-line as his reputation," says Peter Beck, Northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group...