Word: blowingly
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...crude question, one that requires weighing the value of one name against another. Yet it is also an honest one. No matter our class year, it's a blow to our egos when we see that Bill Clinton is speaking at Ball State, Bill Gates at Brandeis, Bill Cosby at Berkeley. We read the accounts of these speeches in The New York Times or see clips on CNN and ask, why not at Harvard? Given the extent to which we have been trained to expect only the best from Harvard--the most important professors, the biggest library system, the most...
...defining moment of his life came during the early days of the bus boycott. A threatening telephone call at midnight alarmed him: "Nigger, we are tired of you and your mess now. And if you aren't out of this town in three days, we're going to blow your brains out and blow up your house." Shaken, King went to the kitchen to pray. "I could hear an inner voice saying to me, 'Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth. And lo I will be with you, even until...
...didn't start until this year, when I got quadded," says one resident of Currier house, preferring to remain anonymous so as not to blow her cover. "I'd be taking a study break or something and go up to the balcony [of Currier towers] and just look at the stars and airplanes-- but then I realized that you can look straight into people's windows. People just don't even think about it." Perhaps active nightlife is rare, ("Come on, it is the Quad after all," says the Currier spy) but there's almost always something...
...defeat at the hands of Harvard's Ivy League championship team this fall weren't enough, Yale's football team has suffered another demoralizing blow. In honor of April Fool's Day, the weekly Yale Herald's March 27 issue features a front-page story announcing plans for the demolition of the Yale Bowl...
Hope is Africa's rarest commodity. Yet buried though it is amid the despair that haunts the continent, there is more optimism today than in decades. Francisco Mucavele found hope last September when an armored steel Casspir rolled over the hill and began to blow up the land mines contaminating Mozambique's rich soil. Olga Haptemariam acquired it in Eritrea's war-scarred port city of Massawa when she laid down 2,000 birr for a license to open a building-supply store. The villagers of N'Tjinina are finding it as they prepare for the solemn experience of voting...