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...Oxford English Dictionary, there would be only four—America, Antarctica, Afro-Eurasia, and Australia. Since that is not the case, it is clear that “continent” now includes national political borders, language isoglosses, and historical circumstances. For example, although Greenland is physically closer to North America, it is a Danish province, and thus a part of the European continent...
...hair back from her face with a languid hand and rolled over toward The Stable Boy. A piece of hay dangled between his lips. He was chewing on it slowly and contentedly.With a sigh, Felicity draped herself over The Stable Boy’s magnificent chest and snuggled closer. She was aching in muscles she hadn’t even known existed. But just as her eyes were about to drift shut again, she saw something glint in the hay next to The Stable Boy. She turned her head to see what had caught the light.It looked like...no, that...
...duty in the National Guard for two years. If time in uniform is any measure, Wright, much more than Cheney, Clinton or Bush, embodies Obama's ideal of "Americans [who] have shown their love of country by struggling and sacrificing and risking their lives to bring us that much closer to our founding promise...
...some, being waitlisted by their dream school can be a blessing in disguise. It can spur them to take a gap year or to take a closer look at their other academic options. If Vincent and Davison don't get into their preferred schools, they'll both go to University of Texas; Brown-Campello would go to University of Vermont; and Simon thinks she'd attend Princeton or Stanford. Kavya Rao, a freshman in the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Medical Scholars Program who was waitlisted at Harvard last spring, thinks they will be just fine. "I would...
...Chicago’s O’Hare Airport—“I’m in Eliot!” and “I’m in Currier?”—was the first experience out of many that drew us closer together. The following morning, as we waited groggily to get picked up to go to our first day of work, one of the freshmen on our trip, Lester Kim ’11, taught us the game “Whoosh and Bong.” As he swept...