Word: contact
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Studying abroad, be it in Paris or Paraguay, provides students with invaluable tools in this increasingly global world. In most cases, it enhances language skills; in all cases, it enables contact with alternative opinions and worldviews, allowing one to understand from the outside how other countries view our own. These factors allow a student to see America, Harvard, and his or her own life...
...Harvard had just four hits in 25 at bats in the game, but ball contact is not reflected in hit statistics. In many cases, players would connect with the ball, but only produce an easy out inside the diamond. Meanwhile, BU was able to produce three runs with just one more hit than the Crimson, totaling five for the game...
...know that factory chicken farms—they keep the chickens calm by making them wear red contact lenses?” I muttered, pushing my salad around the plate. Here I was, face to face with an eminent professor of the English language, and I found myself missing Gchat. Gchat would give me time to Google his reference to some Florentine poet I’d never heard of. It would even allow me to take a break from talking to watch “David after Dentist.” But, now, trapped in the actual world where...
...Last week, Yahoo! Sports reported on its website that a former student manager at the University of Connecticut and a registered agent, Josh Nochimson, had potentially violated numerous NCAA rules due to his contact with Huskies recruit Nate Miles...
...proxy war going on, involving Kabul, Kashmir and Quetta," says Mushahid Hussain, a prominent politician who was close to former military ruler President Pervez Musharraf. "Here you want Pakistan to play a pivotal role. But the real fly in the ointment is that by including India in the contact group, the Obama Administration has been insensitive to the fact that Indian and Pakistani interests diverge." The contact group is composed of countries in the area that the Obama Administration has brought in to deal with regional crises. India and Pakistan are both part of the group, even though their mutual...