Word: faze
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...Wouldn’t it be wonderful if they understood technology?” RISING THROUGH THE RANKS When Murray arrived at MIT, she says she was one of only three women in her physics class out of approximately 100 students—but that didn’t faze her. “At MIT you either hate it or you love it,” Murray says. “And I absolutely loved it.”Murray took readily to the experimental demands of applied physics, completing her senior thesis studying excitations in superfluid helium with...
...dreaded curse of Friday the 13th did not seem to faze the Harvard women’s basketball team against Cornell this past weekend. The Crimson (13-8, 5-2 Ivy) came out strong against the Big Red (7-13, 3-5 Ivy), as it gained the lead five minutes into the game and held on for the duration to win, 75-57. Harvard’s starting five accounted for all but nine of the team’s 75 points, shooting 52 percent from the field and making 18-of-23 free throws. Co-captain Emily...
...classic founding parties, into fourth place. Netanyahu's Likud Party is expected to win 25 to 27 seats, and Livni's centrist Kadima 23 to 25 seats. Lieberman is the subject of a long-running police probe for corruption (he rejects any implication of wrongdoing), but that doesn't faze his fans. Nor does his selection of motley running mates: he has a former ambassador to Washington and a Likud renegade, but also a former model, a singer, a TV anchor and fellow Russian-speaking émigr...
...days prior, he helped lead meetings on the banking crisis, the next federal budget, health-care reform, changes to Medicare and Social Security and a pending reregulation of the financial markets. The litany of crises would give an army of economists the shakes, but it doesn't seem to faze the 54-year-old Summers. "It's part of what makes it a challenging, exciting, interesting, daunting sort of opportunity," he says...
...fellow society members, De Feo majors in American studies, which her department handbook describes as "the integrated and interdisciplinary study of the United States and its culture." Peers tease her for devoting her undergraduate years to a nation that twice elected George W. Bush President, but that doesn't faze her. "We love America," says De Feo, who hails from the rural English county of Hertfordshire. "America has a lot more to it than its President...