Word: gearing
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...post-season approaches.Despite a disappointing end to the regular season, the Crimson’s playoff prospects remain bright. Harvard will travel to Princeton, N.J. for the CSA National Team Championships as the fifth overall seed, looking to improve on their next trip to New Jersey.In order to gear up for the year’s final tournament, the Crimson will look to take advantage of well-deserved time off.Hill stressed the importance of recovery time, as the squad prepares for rigorous back-to-back matches in two weeks...
...stony, “I don’t give a damn” look. However, his style must have been too hip a statement as both Drummey and Wallach get brutally beaten in the music video by a girl half their size. As the song kicks into higher gear, the blows on the duo continue and Wallach, in particular, can’t seem to get enough. Looking hopelessly pathetic, Wallach smiles through the punches, helplessly devoted to his vicious attacker. The viewer can’t help but be reminded throughout the video of the turbulent and short...
...Christi E. Morrissey ’10, whose “dark horse” Adam’s House Council campaign also played off of World War II era Uncle Sam posters geared towards recruiting, used the Obamaicon.me website to transform an image of herself in Naval ROTC gear. “My whole campaign was based off of spoofing iconic images,” Morrissey says...
Harvard’s last capital campaign, which ended in 1999, raised a record-breaking $2.6 billion ($3.3 billion in today’s dollars)—then the largest total in the history of higher education. The University had intended to gear up for another campaign with a 2006 or 2007 launch date, but the 2006 resignation of then-University President Lawrence H. Summers forced Harvard to put a temporary hold on its plans, at least until a new president had been chosen...
...practical compromise. Keeping prisoners for years on end requires territorial control, supply lines and a large number of rebel guards. The FARC maintains those things in some areas. Alan Jara, a kidnapped former governor who was released on Feb. 3, recalls pulling into a rebel camp that lacked kitchen gear. Though they were deep in the Amazon forest, the rebels overnight procured a gasoline stove and a 13-quart pressure cooker to prepare their beans and lentils. But even so, holding hostages has become increasingly difficult. The FARC is losing ground to the army's steady advances, legions of rebels...