Word: fitful
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...targets are Asia and Latin America. York believes China has huge potential thanks to a new version of the straw, which has been downsized to fit onto the side of the small cartons for juice or ultra-heat-treated (UHT) milk produced by global packaging giant Tetra...
...charges a sixth of the average annual tab at private four-year colleges and half as much as an online for-profit like the University of Phoenix, a mega virtual school that has some 200,000 students. And WGU lets you take as many courses as you can fit in a semester, which means some students are able to finish an undergraduate degree in as little as two years. "Before WGU, I would have had to drive almost two hours to Richmond," says Sandy Newsome, a teacher in rural Virginia who is getting her master's in math education. "Learning...
Three years and 130 million votes later, there is much to talk about--not just plans and protocol but personal challenges: How's the food? Where's the gym? How do you raise two daughters under bright lights, stay fit and strong and sane while managing a job that can eat you alive? This too is a presidential tradition. Outgoing President James Buchanan advised Abe Lincoln that water from the right-hand well was better than from the left, and he shared the secrets of the pantry. During John F. Kennedy's visit the day before his Inauguration, Dwight Eisenhower...
Alan M. Dershowitz has been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1964, and he’s met his fair share of would-be presidents: a couple dozen from HLS, he estimates, and maybe three or four from the College. Most of them fit the same good-looking stereotype, Dershowitz said. They were always men, of course. “Very tall, chiseled face, you know, with a lot of gravitas.” “I think people used to look at themselves in the mirror and think, ‘I look presidential...
...said Colin J. Motley ’10, Caleb’s successor as president of the Harvard Republican Club. He thinks Harvard kids from the Northeast misinterpret Caleb’s Texas good manners as smarminess. “It’s more of people trying to fit the office to Caleb than Caleb trying to fit himself to the office,” Colin said. “People project what they want on people,” Caleb’s blockmate Derek M. Flanzraich ‘10 said. Yes, their blocking group calls themselves...