Word: capes
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...fire questions aimed at sharpening the nominee for surprises. White House officials believe Alito's understatement will play well in such a heated atmosphere. Asked how the Administration plans to handle the theatrics of the hearings, a White House official replied tartly, "Maybe we'll put a cape on him." That might be appropriate dress, because like a superhero, Alito almost seems to have two separate identities. To pass his next job interview, he will have to convince enough Senators that at least one of those two Alitos belongs on the Supreme Court...
...embroidered linens, hand-embroidered baby garments, beaded handbags and jewelry, and she imports the products through her two-year-old company, Jacaranda Living, which is based in Wellesley, Mass. Deale's best-selling category is waffle-weave cotton towels, and she says her nautical designs sell well among the Cape...
...University.In the 1960s, Baker helped found the Quebec Labrador Mission, which took American teenagers to teach at Canadian fishing villages, Aisner said. Baker was also involved with several other institutions, including the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the New York Zoological Society, and the Woods Hole Sea Education Association on Cape Cod. A trustee of St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., Baker also served on the visiting committee of the Kennedy School of Government, according to the HBS Bulletin.The area off the coast of Massachusetts has seen three other small-plane crashes this year. In 1999, a private...
...students who have been yearning to stargaze in the southern hemisphere, work in a lab in East Asia, or do cross-cultural research in Cape Town, a new initiative at Harvard may be the answer. On Nov. 27, the Faculty Committee on Education Abroad and the Office of International Programs (OIP) announced the start of a new study-abroad program—a fund that will allow professors who have designed undergraduate excursions into the outside world to realize their plans. For the Faculty Innovation Fund Grant, professors from a variety of disciplines were challenged to devise trips abroad...
...times have brought to the fore a pragmatic indigenous leadership, which in turn has inspired a broader range of people and institutions - from banks to think tanks - to support Aboriginal initiatives. Leaders, such as Noel Pearson from Cape York, now speak of ownership, responsibility and individuality; urging indigenous people to be mainstream, mobile, acquisitive and ambitious, and to reject the so-called "sit-down money" of welfare. The Moree jobs model, with its ethos of pride, self-reliance and social mobility, fits the new thinking, and is now on the move. In the past few years, the AES has opened...