Word: goldfish
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...never regretted the choice. I stayed on the Faculty team for two years and led the team for another year. Along the way, I've eaten goldfish with Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, discussed civil liberties with Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, asked Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith whom he thinks had the greatest impact on the 20th century (FDR '40), and talked with Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles '50 about his possible departure from Harvard...
...first human kidney transplant was performed at Harvard, and the goldfish swallowing craze of the 1940s was started by a Harvard student, Lothrop Withington...
...White Balloon" is the story of a seven-year-old child who, on the eve of the Persian New Year, sees a beautiful goldfish in a pet shop window. Fish are an elemental part of the Persian New Year celebration, which occurs on the first day of spring and lasts for thirteen days. The goldfish in the pet shop is expensive for the family's rather modest income. But with the help of her brother, the little girl, Razieh (Aida Mohammadkhani), convinces her mother to buy the fish for their New Year ceremony...
...Academy screening committee is in for a treat, for the film is fresh and beguiling. Seven-year-old Razieh (Aida Mohammakhani) is determined to buy a pretty white "dancing" goldfish she saw in a nearby shop. Reluctantly, her mother gives Razieh a 500-toman note, but the little girl loses the money. It has fallen into a sewer grate, tantalizingly out of reach. In dramatizing her efforts to get the money back, the film shows that no one can want anything as much as a child does. No one can be so desperate, endearing, selfish. Razieh is a maven...
Larson's interest in guns and gun control was aroused in the early 1980s by a series of teenage drive-by shootings that rocked the quiet neighborhood in Maryland where he lives with his wife, three young daughters and a goldfish named Joey...