Word: desirably
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...smuggled in anthrax or other unconventional weapons as well as espionage tools like electronic listening devices. The House Homeland Security Committee has scheduled hearings on the intrusion for Dec. 3. The Salahis have been invited to testify, along with Secret Service director Mark Sullivan and White House social secretary Desirée Rogers. They have not publicly responded to the request. (See pictures from the White House photo blog...
...with their complexities and ambiguities. As with Shakespeare, there's heightened poetic expression in Sondheim, but when you dig into it, you find it's in touch with something real." The song "Send in the Clowns" contains not just pretty lyrics, but musings perfectly pitched for the character of Desirée, a glamorous actress pushing 40 and facing what may be her last chance for love. "The cadence, the vocabulary, the incidences in the music, a pause he's written in" - all conspire to create minutely observed characters, says Nunn...
Inspired by this success, two Harvard students have joined forces with the Georgetown entrepreneurs. Carl P. Desir ’05 and Zareef J. N. Ahmed ’05—brother of company founder Tamiz Ahmed—are willing to find out. Their franchise division is appropriately named CrimsonBands. Desir says that the bands are “low-key pieces,” something that can be worn everyday. The pair say they think of the bands as comparable to class rings but much less expensive—two bands...
...However, Desir and Ahmed are crossing their fingers that the “LiveStrong” phenomenon won’t die out before the first order is shipped. The bands are manufactured in China and take eight weeks to be received back stateside. If University Hall signs off on their venture, CrimsonBands anticipates a sea of jovial crimson and white wrists come Harvard-Yale in November...
...Desir, who has taken tae kwon do for 3 years and is a red stripe in rank—three levels below the black belt—will be the College’s lone representative in the Nov. 7 and 8 Collegiate Nationals competition held in Washington state...