Word: bends
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...that the over-achieving valedictorian learn to have some fun spawns an equally effective yet starkly contrasted alternate plan, HOWGAL: How Opal Will Get A Life. Little, Brown, and Company reports that “the warm family story at the heart of the novel will remind readers of Bend It Like Beckham, but there’s also enough teen comedy to lure fans of... the hit movie Mean Girls. Viswanathan’s book continues a strong tradition of Harvard students delving into the film industry. The novel will be released April 4. The last time a Harvard...
...spends more on eyeliner than she does on textbooks. She wears more face powder than a 60 year old stripper. She believes she’s destined for greatness. She’s destined to work at a Laundromat” (a tenured professor of History in South Bend...
...mountains, Hamas won a landslide - and thoroughly unpredicted - victory in the Palestinian elections, overturning established patterns in the Middle East and demanding hurried improvisation in Washington. Last week's State of the Union speech by President George W. Bush was full of implicit reminders that the U.S cannot always bend elemental forces to its will. Even the mighty U.S. economy cannot simply shrug off a doubling of the price of oil in two years, especially since - as Bush said - oil is "often imported from unstable parts of the world." Bush may describe Iran as a "nation now held hostage...
...light-years from earth, close to the core of the Milky Way. At that distance, even its home star is invisible, so astronomers resorted to a sort of cosmic optical illusion, first proposed by Einstein in the 1930s, to detect it. Einstein pointed out that since massive objects bend light rays, a star could act as a sort of lens, focusing and magnifying the light of a more distant star passing behind it. In his original paper, Einstein doubted that such a thing would ever be seen- but he didn?t count on modern technology. Since 1997, a Polish...
...Summers’ personal feelings about the controversy posed a problem for his senior staff, who were trying to convince the president to sound a more repentant tone in public. But according to several people familiar with the discussions in Mass. Hall, Summers was reluctant to bend on two key points: academic freedom, which he felt should have protected his right to hypothesize on unsettled scientific issues, and the faculty’s criticisms of his leadership, which he thought were unfair and ill-willed...