Word: buzzed
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...consider them against our own with an open mind. In the end, Americans want to remain vibrant and dynamic as a political entity, and to retain the spirit of activism that has recently seemed to flicker. With that end in mind, we shouldn’t let the buzz around the election fade into the same, safe conversations about television or sports, but rather sustain a climate of active political discussion—even around the dinner table...
...that the Harvard football team’s biggest weakness this season would be its secondary. With All-America cornerback Steven Williams ’08 graduating last year and stud senior Andrew Berry the only known quantity left in the Crimson’s pass defense, the preseason buzz was all about how opposing quarterbacks were going to have a field day against Harvard...
...times such as these, the rational thing to do is to ignore the front-page buzz and listen to what history and the numbers are saying: the odds are that stocks have further to fall, possibly much further. Short-term relief rallies, based on rays of hope that the worst of the credit crunch is behind us, are head fakes, and proof is easy to find. For example, in July, following the legislation to bail out the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the markets rallied for four weeks, only to head south again as investors began to realize...
...their way back into the game, scoring three goals in the third before falling.“We came out flying, [but] had some mental lapses and let them back in the game,” tri-captain Jenny Brine said. “That kind of killed the buzz.”Sophomore forward Liza Ryabkina sparked the Crimson offensive effort with a hat trick, while junior defenseman Cori Bassett added two goals of her own.Despite outshooting Princeton 21-5 in the first period, Harvard only managed one goal in the frame off of a backhanded shot by Ryabkina...
Imagine walking into the engineering labs at 60 Oxford St. and having a fly buzz around your head. After swatting it away, instead of a splat on the wall, you discover a tiny mechanical creation of Robert J. Wood, an assistant professor of electrical engineering. Two weeks ago, Wood was awarded a grant from the Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program for work on the aero-elasticity of flapping wings of micro aero vehicles (MAVs). The Air Force program, which provides around $100,000 each year for a three-year period, hopes...