Word: digging
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...Harvard in the first place. A Harvard education is rigorous in scope and often intense in expectations, flaws and all.Common complaint number three: “The administration doesn’t care about students.”I’ll admit to offering my own occasional dig at the administration when it seemed like perfect opportunities for a student center were wasted, or when the notion that undergraduates would indulge in late-night food if the College made it available flew over administrators’ heads. Indeed, change at Harvard rarely comes quickly. But we forget that change...
...immense sea boiling in his own two ears and licking his forearm to taste his skin fresh from the ocean and baked by the sun." And Roth conjures an understated, haunting set piece in which the man visits the cemetery and chats with the affable worker who will soon dig his grave. These are glimpses of the Everyman whose story would have been more powerful had Roth made him more than merely an every body...
...Dig the latest dispatch from the Culture Wars: the “Big 4” television networks and the Hearst-Argyle broadcast consortium have recently filed suits against the Federal Communications Commission in federal and state courts. These suits challenge the agency’s increasingly common and costly indecency fines...
When it comes to transportation policy, Mass. Governor Mitt Romney’s priorities are only too clear. As part of the 1990 legal agreement to begin the Big Dig highway project, Massachusetts promised to fund a number of desperately needed public transportation projects in order to ameliorate the increased pollution and traffic that the new highway would generate. But the Romney administration has consistently downsized, delayed, or outright terminated most of the projects that were included in the 1990 agreement, choosing instead to divert transportation funds to other expensive highway projects and mass transit extensions that would primarily benefit...
...Rams in scoring position in the top of the sixth, the Crimson appeared to be out of the inning when reliever Bailey Vertovez induced shortstop Jamie Plamondon to ground to short.Junior shortstop Lauren Brown’s throw was low, however, and first baseman Suzy Cominski could not dig it out. The ball rolled in front of the bag as both runners scored.“I think if we would have gotten that out, we would have won 3-2,” said Harvard manager Jenny Allard.The next batter doubled to deep right to score Plamondon and give...