Word: cross
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...banned substances. The saga began to unfold just before 5 p.m. when Mario Pescante, Italy's official representative to the Winter Games, arrived at the office of Carabinieri Colonel Angelo Agovino carrying a slim file and a photograph of a stout 48-year-old named Walter Mayer. The Austrian cross-country and biathlon team coach had been busted after prohibited blood-transfusion equipment was found after the Salt Lake Games in 2002, and banned from the Olympics for 10 years (although he always claimed it was not doping but a form of paramedical disease prevention). Now there was evidence that...
Kicking groups like the IRC out of the Yard makes a lot of sense. Prime real estate in the middle of Harvard Yard should either serve a cross-section of the campus population or that meet specific needs of specific groups. Student counselling services, a central resource for the College’s gay and lesbian students, a women’s center, and prayer space all fit this criterion. So does storage for the HRO’s unwieldy string instruments, and enlarged office space for the Harvard Foundation, which administers some 55 ethnic and cultural organizations on this...
...don’t know if it felt historic, but it was definitely fascinating to watch. I’m an outsider in that community by choice; MMOs are kind of a black hole whose event horizon I dare not cross. It was amazing to see how vivid and lively the interaction was among the residents of Second Life...
Grosso also noted that the way CampusTap links related topics across blogs could encourage “cross-pollination” among student organizations...
...said by people (like Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen, who took over the federal response to Katrina after Brown was sent home) who are in a position to know what needs to be done. For instance, the report says the government needs to work with the American Red Cross to create a database for registering evacuees - so that government assistance can follow them from shelter to shelter. That?s something Allen has said for months. It also emphasizes the need for a "culture of preparedness" among regular citizens - another action item echoed by respected disaster experts...