Word: boasting
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Alaska doesn’t have everything. We don’t have a lot of people, and can’t brag about the urban sprawl that Houston can. We can’t boast a current President of the United States and all the good deeds he does...
...coincidence that Arjumand studied at Pakistan's premier art school, the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, and that ul-Hassan has taught there. The only art school in the world to boast a miniature department where students learn the painstaking techniques that Mughal miniaturists employed, the college has produced a string of artists who are reinvigorating old forms with post-9/11 themes. Imran Qureshi, a professor of miniature at the NCA, has a solo show in Oxford's Modern Art museum, which includes his delicate rendering of a bearded mullah blowing bubbles. In 2003, Qureshi and five...
...spite of everything statistics provide, fans of Harvard-Yale know that The Game often comes down to turnovers, field position, and the kicking game. The Crimson has had kicking woes in the past and the Bulldogs boast the best kicker in the league, while the teams have a nearly identical turnover margin. As always, it will come down to who makes the fewest mistakes and who capitalizes down the stretch...
...mind behind Harvard’s social-norms initiative, which distributes pens, notepads, and Nalgene bottles emblazoned with statistics of Harvard students’ healthy drinking habits. He has also increased alcohol education and workshops for freshmen, and has seen Harvard’s National Alcohol Screening Day boast the highest campus-wide participation in the country. “To be able to work with students who are truly struggling with substance abuse issues...can be really powerful,” said Travia. But he emphasizes students’ contribution to the program. “Nothing will change...
These days most broadband subscribers use either a modem from their cable company or a digital subscriber line (DSL) from their phone company. The first wave of BPL roll-outs doesn't pose much of a threat to the Comcasts and Verizons of the industry, which boast millions of customers and have been selling high-speed access since the late '90s. Some 22 million U.S. households already subscribe to a broadband service, according to Forrester Research analyst Jed Kolko, making it one of the biggest hits of the digital...