Word: boast
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...common ground that so often seems lacking at Harvard. As appealing as a greater sense of community may be, a student center shows no promise of providing it. Loker Commons was built to fill this role, and equipped with most of the amenities that a proposed student center would boast--fast food, meeting space, a central location, e-mail terminals, games--but the idea of hanging out at Loker is a snide joke or sarcastic put-down. The proposals for a student center would only create another version of Loker Commons, perhaps without the glum basement feel and uncomfortable metal...
Venky calls this year's TECH programs an "experiment," attempting to establish a weekly forum for intimate discussions among a mix of people. TECH will boast visits from Dave Murphy '75, the director of technology for Sapient Corp., one of the leading website builders in the world; George Bell, CEO of Excite@Home; and Jeff Benzen, chief scientist at BMC software who will discuss Internet technology and site management...
...that year, the club has gained 1,100 members from around the world, and can boast participants from India, Europe, Israel, Australia and the Philippines. Though most members are graduate students living in the Boston area, the group also has members from the biotechnology industry and from other academic communities...
...sense of how the team sizes up its opponent. "I have never said anything I knew to be untrue," says Gore as he defends himself against Bill Bradley's claim that he has distorted his health care plan. "I have never said anything that is untrue." The boast is a vexing reminder that the Bush campaign, like Bradley's, has been unable to make Gore's credibility an issue. But it is also a claim they hope to make Gore defend and the second half of the clip shows why it is so necessary for Bush to make Gore...
...with the hard-won rewards of their Olympic campaigns. For them, the only sport of the Games is hunting pins-small badges decorated with cartoon characters, flags or corporate logos. With the keen eyes of marksmen, these self-described pinheads can spot a quality pin at 50 paces; some boast collections of 60,000 or more. "I specialize in 'countdown' pins," says 17-year-old Sydneysider Nicholas Howard, glancing around furtively as he unzips the black acrylic display case chained and padlocked to his body. He shows off a "1,000 Days to Go" pin he says is worth...