Word: crashing
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...first day of preseason practice is always an eye-opener for the freshmen on the Harvard football team. In full pads, in the muggy Massachusetts heat, the rookies get a crash course in college ball. The pace is vastly swifter than in high school. Coaches bark out rapid-fire orders. The drills are complex. The running never stops...
...explained shortly before the 1929 stock-market crash why prices would keep rising, and was so chastened that he vowed to leave the role of futurist to others. But PETER DRUCKER had plenty to say and did so in more than 30 books, and few in the business world have ever been so adept at seeing around corners. Drucker, who died last week at 95, foresaw inflation in the 1970s, the rise of Japan Inc. in the 1980s and the decline of unions in the 1990s. But his most far-reaching theories were on management and labor. He argued that...
...have a premonition that you can get something decent out of it," he says. "You just have to trust your gut." He asked Paul Haggis, who wrote Flags, if he would like to write the Japanese version as well. The writer of Million Dollar Baby and director of Crash, Haggis was overbooked but thought an aspiring young Japanese-American screenwriter, Iris Yamashita, who had helped him research Flags, might be able to do it. She met with Eastwood, and once again his gut spoke; he gave her the job and liked her first draft so much that he bought...
...House Master’s Open House has recently taken on a whole new meaning. This semester, Fang Yuan ’07, a Mather House resident, has discovered a way to satisfy her food cravings without succumbing to the dull dining hall dinners. Her plan: to crash all of the House Master’s Open Houses on campus and discover which one is truly the best alternative to Peanut Pad Thai and Country Fried Steak. So far her mission is still in progress. “I’m planning on going to every Master?...
There are a few basic options for sleeping at another college: 1) Rely on a friend of a friend (horrible idea). 2) Sleep on the floor (pretty terrible). 3) Crash on the futon of a co-ed who takes pity on you (depressing). Or, 4) Get blackout and pull a sleepover/hook-up with anyone who will talk...