Word: foundered
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...statue of Franco in Madrid in March, PP leader Mariano Rajoy accused Zapatero of "breaking the spirit of the transition [to democracy]." The men at the Francisco Franco Foundation say they aren't worried about the Generalissimo's fate because they believe the plans to remake the Valley will founder in political disagreements. Even icv vice president Bosch admits that the government may not be ready to move the dictator's remains to a private grave. But whatever happens, it seems likely that in the near future, visitors to the Valley of the Fallen will encounter something different - a monument...
...Harvard squash team. “We may get more strength training and injury prevention from weight training, but yoga helps our team to internalize our breathing and to concentrate on moving more deliberately on the court.”A college tennis player at Harvard and now the founder and director of Core Yoga, Deborah Cohen ’91 customizes her yoga sessions for the Harvard women’s tennis team. “Depending on the sport, I emphasize different poses. Tennis players have tight hamstrings and shoulders, so we work on loosening these areas?...
...letter was, in many ways, a roll call of Harvard’s key players, with shout outs going to most (though not all) of the University’s deans as well as notable alumni involved in University projects, including Yo-Yo Ma ’76, founder of the Silk Road Project, and Frank O. Gehry, who has consulted on Harvard’s master plan for the Allston campus...
China may claim 5,000 years of civilization--as locals often remind visitors from younger nations--but over the past half-century most of the country forgot its collective manners. Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic, considered teeth brushing a Western affectation and thought nothing of greeting international dignitaries while wearing patched trousers. Although China has mostly shed Chairman Mao's class-busting ideology and cities like Shanghai boast skyscrapers and bustling shopping malls, the deportment of some citizens evokes an era of subsistence. Even some members of the new bourgeoisie indulge in conspicuously boorish behavior, like...
...sometimes feel sorry for De Klerk after the old man bullies him.'' Their disagreements became so acrimonious that Mandela and De Klerk at one point broke off all personal contacts, communicating only through letters and public statements. But both had invested too much in the process to let it founder. Shrewdly, they delegated the day-to-day haggling to subordinates. And the leading understudies, government minister Roelof Meyer, 46, and A.N.C. secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa, 41, eventually came through with the crucial compromise: an agreement to establish a government of national unity for five years after the first free elections...