Word: flooded
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...beer-can speckled street of letter-adorned houses doesn’t exist round these parts, fraternities do lurk among Harvard’s masses. Three of them, in fact: Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), Sigma Chi, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE). As invitations to rush meetings begin to flood freshmen doorboxes, FM decided to check out these brothers from different mothers and their bi-annual ritual to attract new members, dubbed “rush.” According to AEPi’s president, Jason R. Borschow ’07, AEPi delivers invitations to a special...
...would be their common foe, Israel. One miltia linked to Abbas, the al-Aksa Martyr's Brigade, has vowed to start assassinating Hamas leaders in Palestine and abroad. Israelis military officials are also alarmed by the chaos in Gaza; they fear that, inevitably, a civil war among Palestinians will flood over into Israel...
...Londonsince last, oh, ever. But there has been an insurer there, Lloyd's, since 1771. And because it's an outfit that historically insured ships, weather is never too far from its mind. Last year Hurricane Katrina turned heads at Lloyd's. The storm didn't just flood New Orleans; it also swept away the insurance industry's trust in its catastrophe modeling, the tool it depends on to evaluate bad-weather risk. The model assumed that a hurricane like Katrina couldn't happen in the same year as two other superstorms. Nor did it envision...
Insurance has always prided itself on taking a leadership role on societal issues. In the U.S. the insurance industry pushed for the establishment of official fire departments in the 19th century. More recently, the British insurance industry, as part of its campaign to be able to keep offering flood insurance, lobbied hard in the 2005 elections for better flood-defense funding...
...Sept. 29 news article, "For Sports, Admit Policy Not Binding," misidentified the sport played varsity athlete Sara M. Flood '10. She is on the lacrosse team, not the field hockey team...