Word: flings
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...onto the situation in Africa. And her protestations that "this is why I am famous, so that I can help people," do nothing to stop skepticism. But Sachs, who will accompany her to Malawi in October, is not among the cynics. "Of course there are people who on a fling say something, but that's not what Madonna's doing," he says. "In the very noisy and complicated world that we have, people that reach large numbers of people, like Madonna does, have an extraordinarily important role to play. When they're devoting their time, their money, their name...
Katrina didn't just fling barges across bayous--it ripped a hole in the nation's economy. The storm crippled oil and gas production in the Gulf, idled refineries and chemical-processing plants and devastated New Orleans' $7 billion tourism industry. The city stands to lose more than $500 million a month in visitor dollars. J. Stephen Perry, head of the Convention and Visitors Board, says the empty and damaged hotels "are like Baghdad on a bad day." But for the national economy, what's more critical is that Katrina disrupted a vital node in the country's transport network...
...also been criticized for their disproportionate focus on family and neighboring community, rather than on the College. Springfest, in recent years, has been built around food and carnival games, which may seem less than age-appropriate when compared with similar events at other schools. Penn’s Spring Fling, for instance, is known for its free-flowing alcohol and most recently featured a concert with O.A.R. HCC’s reforms for Yardfest aim to address chronic students complaints by creating a more College-centered—rather than family-oriented—event, one that features...
...quite gloomy environs. The College, after all, does have its strengths, and perhaps its time we paid a little more attention to them. While Harvard may not have the house life of Yale, the student-professor interaction of Amherst, or a Yardfest to rival Penn’s Spring Fling, few of our peer institutions can hold a candle to the vibrancy of co-curricular life at Harvard. Rather then rest on its laurels, Harvard would do well to find ways to make the leap from good to great in this realm.It’s easy to look...
...traditional views and settled habits, he is comically out of step with the new age. His children would rather watch television than heed his commands on deportment, and even the dog no longer takes him seriously. His wife, fed up with his aloof dignity, has a one-night fling with an American soldier. Determined to regain her affection, Shunsuke goes heavily into debt to build a modern, American-style house. That pile becomes a metaphor for the marriage and much else. The roof leaks. Plants die on the sunbaked veranda. And when the Japanese-made air-conditioning system breaks down...