Word: dig
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...This is not a kick in the shin of any nation, any leader." OLE DANBOLT MJOES, Norwegian Nobel committee chair, denying that the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, was a dig at the U.S. over the war in Iraq...
...DANBOLT MJOES, Norwegian Nobel Committee chair, denying that the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, was a dig at the U.S. over the war in Iraq...
After emigrating from India, Saini took a job directing traffic at the Big Dig. “When I got hired,” Pritam explains, “they asked for my real name. I said Pritam. He gave me the name Tony.” Since then, his friends have known Pritam by his American name...
...this largess? It won’t be the poor Superdome victims highlighted on national television. Instead, chances are that cronyism and corruption will line the pockets of well-connected businessmen and officials. The government has a proven inability to manage and oversee spending (just think about the Big Dig), and Louisiana—a byword for political corruption—is probably the last place in America that should get billions of no-strings-attached dollars. This is the state that ranked third in per capita public corruption convictions over the past decade. (Neighborhing Mississippi was first.) Friends...
With the guidance of Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology William L. Fash, Associate Curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Patricia A. Capone, and Associate Curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Diana Loren, the students will dig three feet into the soil in Harvard Yard and 350 years into history to unearth the memories and mysteries of The Harvard Indian College...