Word: built
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need. That's what's interesting to me - how adaptable the human organism is. I train intensively. I built the pillar in the desert in California a year before I actually did it, and I spent months on end climbing up the pillar every day, standing up there, hanging out up there and getting comfortable and jumping down into cardboard boxes and airbags and getting used to jumping down 100 feet continuously and getting used...
...Anyone who’s held an event, eaten a meal, or even just observed Harvard’s idiosyncratic campus knows just how maddening the layout of our school can be. Some of that’s not our fault: a large fraction of the campus was built long before modern conveniences like laptop computers or flush toilets, and provisions for these have been added haphazardly...
...they sally forth to serve their country with pride, Harvard’s ROTC graduates should do so with firm misgivings about the discrimination built into the organization of which they will have become part. Only by doing so can they aspire to overcome the generational divide that stands between the status quo and real equality of citizenship for gay Americans...
...cobblestones on the sidewalks, the names and simplicity of the buildings in the Yard, and the architecture of the Houses on the river. As the Crimson noted in a recent article, Harvard has been more successful than other large universities in preserving a common theme in its built environment. At a time when “naming opportunities” are regularly given to wealthy donors and cities change the names of their sports arenas almost every year to afford publicity to the highest bidder, it is comforting to know that students and alumni can still have common reference points...
...Part of McCain’s appeal in 2000, and again in 2008, has been his frank, independent nature. McCain has built up a respected and honest career doing what he thinks is right and not worrying about how his actions might upset party leaders and the political hierarchy in Washington. McCain has come too far to abandon these character traits for a few more votes in the presidential campaign. Attacking Bush about Katrina might appeal to embittered or neglected citizens and students in New Orleans, but it is not worth sacrificing integrity...