Word: cauldron
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...with government corruption, stormed city hall, tossed out the top bureaucrats and occupied the building. Their strange protest continues today. Three dozen old women in smocks and sandals sit at the entrance, guarding against the removal of boxes of documents that they believe will prove the officials' guilt. A cauldron of congee cooks on an open fire in the driveway. One retiree, 73-year-old Li Biao, marches around the building in a T shirt with the phrase "Villager's Complaint" stenciled over the face of Bruce...
...worldwide since the early 1980s, as China and India lead a wave of nations roaring into modernity. Iraq is a shambles, Iran a menace. Leading oil companies in the U.S. and Europe are gloomy about their ability to open up sufficient sources of oil to meet the demand. This cauldron of uncertainty is helping push the dollar down and energy prices...
...given the cauldron of ambition that is Harvard, this is cause for reflection. We have thus far been fortunate enough to elect representatives who have invariably shied away from megalomania. But the UC has still erected a permanent framework of students who are in the know and those...
...Although the victims in many of the murders that get the most media attention are white, it escapes no one in South Africa that the vast majority of victims are black. The same townships that were the cauldron of revolution before apartheid ended in 1994 are now crucibles of crime...
...stage to deliver opening remarks. Faust conveyed her excitement in seeing the “new spaces, new times, and new possibilities” of the historic theater, paying equal respects to the Hasty Pudding’s artistic contributions since 1888 as well as the “cauldron of creativity” that she said would undoubtedly be the future of theater at Harvard. Faust also noted the importance of having a space for the “700 undergraduates involved in all phases of theater” at Harvard. Sited on Holyoke Street, the new location...