Word: damping
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...waiting for Third Eye Blind to come on stage at Yardfest, I thought with relish about the beautiful day on which Yardfest 2006 had taken place. The weather this past Saturday had dampened my spirits (and, after a stint on the two story slide, my pants were rather damp too). I wasn’t the only one turned off by the weather: Unlike Yardfest 2006, which packed Tercentenary Theatre all the way back to the Widener steps, this year Tercentenary was less than half full when Third Eye Blind walked on stage. Ironically, Yardfest 2006 had a rain plan?...
...finally made it to Harvard,” shouted Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins to a huddled mass of enthusiastic undergraduates at this year’s damp Yardfest. The singer proceeded to don a top hat and take off his shoes, in a dissonant but oddly endearing tribute to both the conservative costume of Harvard yore and the liberal spirit of the occasion. Harvard’s College Events Board (CEB) should be commended for a Yardfest that succeeded in spite of inclement weather. But amid the frivolity of a two-story slide, a tire swing...
...early to tell if the new operation will damp down sectarian tensions. "There are more ways in which this could go wrong than go right," says political analyst Tahseen al-Shekhli. "We have seen too many plans fail to have any faith in this one." Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a lifelong Shi'ite partisan, has shown little patience for Sunni grievances and has failed to start an oft-promised national reconciliation process. So despite his professed conviction that the security operation is working, chances remain high that it will eventually falter, brought down by the inability of Sunnis...
...fireplace and the chimney, lifted floorboards, climbed onto the roof, fished in the water tank under the ceiling and crawled under the floor. Darkness had long descended on the city when they decided to dig up the garden. They switched on the terrace lights and started digging. The damp, ash-covered lawn was trampled into a sea of mud; all the flower beds were dug up, and spades were sunk into the earth around the shrubs. They even pulled plants out of their pots. But they found nothing, for nothing was there to be found. In the end, physical exhaustion...
...cold, damp London for a second home? Unlike the U.S., Britain doesn't generally tax the income of resident foreigners unless they bring it into the country. Compared with the rest of Europe, Britain is seen as a country free of red tape, where it's easy to start a business. It's thought to be safe and cultured and a great place to educate children. Plus it's just four hours by air from Moscow...