Word: flocks
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When Bill Clinton became the president of the United States in 1993, a flock of Harvard scholars migrated to Washington to join his administration. Two professors who joined the exodus, Joseph S. Nye Jr. and David T. Ellwood '75, have at long last returned to Harvard as the dean and academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government...
...woman. She was still moving, but her legs were gone. The other day I saw something similar in a film. A beast cut a young man in two, torso and legs. One was a movie, the other is our reality here in Bosnia. We are like a flock of little chickens squeezed into this cage of a town, chirping for help...
...rivers cascading over the north rim, plus high-rise hotels and time-share condominiums. Currently there are no building restrictions in Lake Superior; developers will be free to create high-rises in the shape of grain elevators, casinos shaped like casserole dishes, accordions, automatic washers. Celebrities will flock to the canyon. You'll see guys on the Letterman show who, when Dave asks, "Where you going next month, pal?" will say, "I'll be in Minnesota, Dave, playing four weeks at the Pokegama." Tourism will jump 1,000%. Guys on the red-eye from L.A. to New York will look...
...stage a flock of doves is released to flutter over the heads of the audience. On another there's an ethereal procession of dancers dressed as parti-colored birds. The avian stagecraft is not the only thing linking two complementary productions that have enlivened New York City's traditionally slow summer season. James Lapine's Twelve Dreams is a straight play that feels like a musical; Graciela Daniele's Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a musical that often feels like a straight play. Both appear under the aegis of Lincoln Center (though the first is off-Broadway, the second...
...environmental concerns, Terrace boosters respond that surveys have cleared the project of contributing to water pollution. As for the cost, advocates believe convention business will generate some $20 million a year in revenue for Madison, even though the Terrace itself will operate at a loss. "People will flock from as far away as Tokyo to see Frank Lloyd Wright's last building," predicts Governor Thompson. "It's going to be a centerpiece...