Word: drives
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...volunteers, all students belonging to Princeton's humor magazine, The Princeton Tiger, used their fall recess to drive to Cambridge in order to help their less fortunate peers. 'Everyone's hurting in this economy,' said Steven Liss, Chairman of The Tiger...
Local 615 believes the educational mission, as embodied by trustees, deans, faculty, students, staff, and alumni—not by the Harvard Management Corporation—should drive educational and economic policies at Harvard. In our view, Harvard needs to engage in genuine innovation and a sober reappraisal of its educational, investment, and budget policies. This can only happen when Harvard takes into account the ideas and needs of the broad community of stakeholders who care about—and who have an interest in—the future of this university...
...past, administrators have expressed hope that the Public Service Initiative would encourage students to pursue their interest in government or non-profit jobs by relieving the financial pressure that might otherwise drive them to take lucrative corporate positions...
...celebrities and the superrich who live in Isleworth, including Tiger Woods, would like to project a common touch. Every Halloween, residents of the gated golf community near Orlando, Fla., decorate their golf carts and drive trick-or-treaters door to door. They share lunches and dinners at the country club, play pickup basketball games and hold community events. "It's pretty normal," says Ravé Mehta, CEO of a software-development firm who lives just outside Isleworth's vine-covered walls but has many friends inside...
...beginning," Sheik Mohammed once told an Arab journalist, "they said that Dubai was crazy." Certainly few Arab leaders have demonstrated such a relentless drive to succeed. He imagined Dubai as a great city from Islam's rich heritage, a Baghdad or a Cordoba. His immense appetite for work is matched by a passion for play. He is a world-class thoroughbred racer and breeder and, at 62, he remains a celebrated equestrian who engages in arduous endurance races across hundreds of miles of terrain. Doubtless it takes a politician of supreme self-confidence not only to write Arabic poetry...