Word: fallow
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...There’s this sort of half-life to the work of excellent scholars who go on to produce other scholars,” she says. “The same thing happens in reverse. People retire or resign and fields lie fallow...I expect that 10 years down the line, we’ll see a lot of excellent Middle East scholars...
...Bomb ought to get its whole request while three other projects dealing with issues of sexuality or sexual violence should be scaled back. But more importantly, the council should begin realizing that its decisions to fund (or not to fund) magazines results in them being published or laying fallow...
...also offered to Illingworth a potential solution to these problems. The Hasty Pudding building stands tall at 12 Holyoke Street, and it lies mostly fallow. The University has owned the land under the building since 1986, but only recently did it get authority over the building itself, when it purchased it from the Institute of 1770 three years ago. Today, the Hasty Pudding Theater remains almost exactly as it was before Harvard gained control. It serves as a private practice space and clubhouse for three Harvard groups: the Harvard Krokodiloes, the Radcliffe Pitches and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT). These...
...defused by maintaining peaceful dialogue with North Korea's erratic dictator Kim Jong Il. But black clouds fell across the South's "Sunshine Policy" last week. First, a special envoy sent by Seoul to Pyongyang was rebuffed?the Dear Leader, it seems, was too busy touring the nation's fallow farms. Then North Korea, responding to U.S. President George W. Bush's stern State of the Union address, turned its bellicose rhetoric up to 11, calling Bush "a shameless charlatan." The Stalinist country then appeared to put bite in its bark, reportedly moving its nuclear-fuel rods out of storage...
...connected with people; it has one-third fewer viewers in its second season than Voyager did during its sophomore outing. Trek fans may also be a bit exhausted. "Perhaps we weren't careful enough in giving the audience some breathing room--a year or two they could have lain fallow," says Berman. Nemesis, however, may prove him wrong. In firing up one of the most riveting space battles in the history of the franchise, it just may get all those closeted Trekkies to come...