Word: gainful
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...promote his new novel, “Sag Harbor,” an excerpt of which appeared in The New Yorker’s Winter Fiction Issue. Last time he was in town, in 2006, he drew a crowd of 75 people to the Brattle Theatre, according to Heather Gain of Harvard Book Store. This time when he is in Boston, he will read at Porter Square Books on May 7. When asked about the reading, Ellen Jarrett, who is in charge of organizing events for the bookstore, says, “I am very hopeful for a good event...
After a debilitating doubleheader loss to Yale (16-18, 5-7 Ivy) on Sunday, Harvard had a chance for redemption yesterday at Soldiers Field.The Crimson (21-12, 7-5) took full advantage, sweeping its rival, 4-0 and 1-0, to gain some important momentum going into the Ivy League stretch run.Led by standout freshman Rachel Brown’s one-hit complete game gem and the clutch play of junior third baseman Melissa Schellberg, Harvard took it to the Bulldogs in the first game, crushing the team, 4-0.In the second contest, junior Margaux Black continued the Crimson?...
...light of our society’s pervasive equation of meat-eating with masculine dominance, such minglings of the anti-meat agenda with misogyny assume added complexity. The ostensible absurdity of a vegetarian weight-lifter exposes a deep-rooted cultural fiction: that men gain strength and virility through eating the flesh of other mammals. Although, from a nutritional standpoint, meat may do more to clog men’s arteries than to build their muscles, meat retains symbolic power: The slaughter and consumption of animal flesh serves as a means for men to assert their dominance over nature...
...Tech Mahindra, a Pune-based telecom-solutions provider, won the auction on Monday, agreeing to buy 31% of Satyam for $352 million, a 23% premium to Satyam's last closing price on Thursday. Tech Mahindra plans to make a public offer to acquire 20% more of Satyam shares to gain a majority stake, as required by Indian law, taking the cost of the deal to $580 billion. (Read TIME's 2006 cover story about telecommunications in India...
...We’re still working on lineups and getting good training in, but it’s hardly a predictor of the rest of the season,” Demers said. “I think we have a lot of speed to find and gain, and I think we can do that in the next few weeks.”On Saturday, facing some of the best competition in the country, the No. 4 Radcliffe lightweight crew team finished in second place at the Knecht Cup on the Cooper River in Camden, New Jersey. Both the first...