Word: casted
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...loans and investments, but start-ups like Reunion don't have to wrestle with those problems. Entrepreneurs like Sleaford, even in hard-hit Florida, are setting up shop with completely clean balance sheets. They've got millions of dollars in fresh capital to write loans - and to pursue borrowers cast aside by banks focused on mopping up the mess from the years of excess. "New banks see people having a tough time getting loans, plus their funding costs are cheap since rates are low and they pay next to nothing for deposits," says Richard Sylla, an economist at New York...
...draw out the play’s more outrageous and taboo themes—an attempt to substantiate this “schoolboy comedy” and create an engaging and moving performance.In a play that focuses so much on the shifting and ambiguous teacher-student relationship, using a cast of just college students poses a challenge, with no visual differentiation between master and student. For Walker, however, this is part of the attraction of putting on the show. “This is a story that needs to be told, and it needs to be done by a younger...
Cost of one year’s instruction in 1880: $200 Cost of tuition for the 2009-2010 school year: $33,696 Number of members in the cast of Acropolis Now, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 161st Show: 12 Number of performances put on this year: 38 Year of the staging of the HPT’s first production, Bombastes Furioso: 1844 Age of Paul Dudley, class of 1690, the youngest person ever to be admitted to Harvard: 10 Estimated IQ of Willian James Sidis, class of 1909, a child prodigy who entered Harvard at age 11: 300 Number...
...Harvard t-shirt and black fleece jacket, Lieutenant Colonel Mark E. Mitchell appears to fit in with the usual cast of undergraduates, TF’s and academics that populate Harvard Yard. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW] But as an Army Special Forces officer with 22 years of operational experience, the stories he tells reach far beyond the classroom. Mitchell is a member of the National Security Fellows program at the Harvard Kennedy School; one of 21 representatives of the U.S. military and civilian intelligence community that are participating in a year-long fellowship of study here at Harvard...
Seeking alliances with more moderate Taliban elements against al-Qaeda is not a new idea in the Afghanistan-Pakistan context, but until now it has typically drawn a skeptical response from U.S. officials who regularly cast doubt on the wisdom of Pakistan's pursuing such agreements. So the news last weekend that President Barack Obama was entertaining the same idea, to reverse what he described as a war in Afghanistan that the U.S. was losing, was greeted with some raised eyebrows in the region. However, his suggestion was welcomed by Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, who has been advocating...