Word: forest
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...challenge beliefs and get drunkenly swept away into the whirlwind vortex of passionate opinions and academic interchange. But when one tangential question leads to another, students can get caught up in all the minor nuances of ideas, until by the end Little Red Riding Hood has stepped off the forest path with very little hope of ever returning. As Sahil K. Mahtani ’08 so aptly observed, “the limitations of small classes is that sometimes professors are reluctant to limit the speaking times of students,” resulting not only in lengthy digressions...
...Wake Forest outshot Harvard 23-2, and goalies Kristina Gagliardi and Merilee Robbins didn’t have to make a single save in the contest...
...that a lot...it was just a matter of being able to put pressure on them and play 2-on-2 at the sidelines. We just didn’t always get there quite quick enough or put on a strong enough tackle. Wake Forest moves the ball very, very well...
Burr was born in Virginia, but his family moved to North Carolina when he was a boy. He attended Wake Forest University, then went to work for a wholesaler of outdoor power equipment. In 1992 he made an abrupt career switch. Alarmed, as he tells it, at high taxes, he ran for Congress--and lost. In 1994 he tried again, this time riding the Gingrich tsunami to Capitol Hill...
...Cutter and McCurry--that the last thing he could afford now was to start sounding like Oprah. Not while Americans were hearing of hostage beheadings and car bombs every night on the news; not while Bush and Cheney were stoking the voters' fears with ads about wolves in the forest and hints of a postelection nuclear holocaust. A warm and fuzzy message now, Kerry said, would be a bigger mistake than it was in August, and then it had almost killed...