Word: embarked
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...children's fiction, set up the Urdu Project, an online journal of translations and literary criticism. Then, on a wintry night in 1999, Farooqi says that a "horse-headed gent" and an "elephant-eared lady" - figures from the dastan - came to him in a dream and told him to embark on a translation of the epic...
...team,” says captain Brad Unger, the lone senior on this year’s squad. “We’re expecting a lot, and we know he’ll deliver.” Amaker also has high hopes for Lin as they embark on their first season together. “We want him to blossom, to be a high-flyer, and we need that from him,” Amaker says. The bar has thus been raised for Lin, who averaged 4.8 points per game while shooting 41.5 percent from the floor last...
...down a game-high 11 rebounds, both career highs.Though the team may be young, its bright future will attempt to mask the past few dark and tumultuous seasons. With a vibrant new playing style and the pieces in place to implement that style, Amaker has the necessary elements to embark upon his Ivy campaign.—Staff writer Mauricio A. Cruz can be reached at cruz2@fas.harvard.edu...
...Class of 2008 has sentiments like Gates’s on their minds as they prepare to embark on their post-collegiate lives, and the pressures seem almost impossible to balance. Forget figuring out what we’re going to do with our own lives; now we have to save the planet as well. The thorny questions of morality raised in speeches like Gates’s are most readily accessible through the concern at the forefront of every senior’s mind: Where will I be working next year...
...after I graduated, and there was a split,” says John Z. Fang ’07, now working in the fixed-income department at Merrill Lynch. After Bill Gates’s speech, some seniors found it difficult to listen to a billionaire demand that they embark on careers that almost universally result in economic privation. Others admired the bold sentiment and were empowered by the call to action. “It’s—I wouldn’t say hypocritical, but maybe ironic, that he didn’t start giving back...