Word: gate
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11/22/08, 14:40 before kickoff: the bands are on the field in front of a mostly empty Harvard Stadium, but people are lined up at the ticket gate...
...Jurassic Park,” read the little brown archway at the entrance of a Massachusetts College of Art and Design auditorium last Friday. Modeled after the distinctive gate from the fictional park itself, the entrance led to “They Should All Be Destroyed: A Jurassic Park Play,” a dramatic adaptation of the movie by the Baltimore-based artist collective Wham City. Like the park, the show initially looked like it might lack the technology to succeed in its ambitious enterprise. Before the show began, the audience was treated to a rendition of John Williams?...
...department was formed in response to student activism that had been spurred by the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Since then, the department has been home to a number of leading intellectuals, such as Henry Louis Gate, Jr. and Cornel R. West. But over the past ten years the Af-Am faculty shrunk to bare bones after University President Laurence H. Summer’s contentious tenure spurred the departure of five prominent scholars...
...going into Quincy House to grab a quick lunch when a couple with a sandwich board stopped me at the front gate. “Are you going in to vote?” the woman asked me. I told her I wasn’t American as I rushed past. “What did he say?” her partner asked her. “He doesn’t want to vote,” the woman responded dismissively...
...Obama makes in the next six weeks may help define what kind of President he will be. The appointments he makes, the way he engineers his government, how fast he gets everything in place - each of those things will determine whether he stumbles or bursts out of the starting gate and whether he sets forth a clear or an incoherent agenda for governing...