Word: dexterous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Forever War By Dexter Filkins Knopf...
...contrast, should historians of the future ignore such brilliant works of reportage as Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower or Dexter Filkins’ masterful account of his period in Iraq—The Forever War? Indeed, I have seen first-hand how rigorously Mr. Wright, a personal friend and distinguished journalist, pursues the finest, epiphanal details that are so often ignored by professional historians. The 60 pages of footnotes and list of more than 500 individuals he interviewed for his “journalistic” work would do any historian proud...
...threshold of Harvard Yard and Massachusetts Avenue stands Dexter Gate, donated to the college in 1890. It cuts through Wigglesworth Hall, and anybody who lives in a river house walks through it at least once a day. But for all of its traffic, few students notice the carved inscriptions in the stone arch above the gate. The outside of the gate reads, “Enter to grow in wisdom,” while the inside bears the message, “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind...
...library at 4 A.M., nothing seems very clear, least of all the “wisdom” that Dexter Gate suggests we should be gaining. Much of the competition for success, however students define it, seems to lead towards post-graduation plans. For 58 percent of men and 43 percent of women graduating from Harvard, that means finance or consulting...
...eight finished just 1.9 seconds behind its New Haven counterpart, the closest any crew had come to Yale at the time. The second freshman eight won its race by almost 15 seconds. “The freshmen have been extremely exciting this year,” second varsity coxswain Dexter Louie said after the HYP race. “They’re going to add a lot to the team when they come up to the varsity ranks next year.” Despite its strong performances throughout the season, the freshman eight finished fourth in its heat...