Word: grandness
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...have created websites rich with photographs of tearful mothers, menacing deputies and frightened kids. All they desire, one site explains, is "the privilege of worshiping God as guaranteed by the Constitution." But live and let live is more complicated now because the buffers have disappeared. The verge of the Grand Canyon is no longer the middle of nowhere--it's the bridge from Lake Powell to Las Vegas. The jealousies and rivalries that have always boiled through polygamous communities now have ways of commanding attention. Secrets are getting out. And those alleged secrets--which range from child abuse and welfare...
...because Sandy's muscles - ripped around his broken hip, and squashed by his body weight on the hard floor - were producing myoglobin, which, along with dehydration and low blood pressure, was poisoning his kidneys. In the hospitals where I trained, this case would have been a "save" - a great grand rounds case. But here, especially with no family hovering, the only human audience was the crew taking care...
...proud. After sustaining injuries and disappointment in their first competition in March (following a 20-year competition drought), the Harvard cheerleading team stunted their way to victory at the recent Minute-Man Mass Championship in Washington, D.C., earning the squad of 19 the title of “Grand Champions.” But the cheerleading team’s path to victory has not been a flawless one. The team acknowledges that for many, the term “Harvard cheerleader” is the ultimate oxymoron. Cheerleader Cassie E. Snow ’10 describes spectators?...
...Brahmin was summoned by the ailing monarch of what was then a princely state under British tutelage. Numerous doctors had failed to cure the king's affliction, but the yogi succeeded within a few months, and the king rewarded him by building him a yogashala (yoga school) in his grand palace. It was here that the yogi, T. Krishnamacharya, developed Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga - a comparatively aerobic style whose devotees include the likes of Madonna and Sting, and thousands of hipsters from Tokyo to New York. But it was necessity, rather than the body-toning concerns of Western fashionistas, that shaped...
...Kitovitz said. “I thought there was a positive response from the boat all week. Everybody just knuckled down a bit and thought of what they could do to get us a win.”Every Harvard-Princeton race, whether an April dual showdown or a Grand Final slugfest at Camden in June, carries with it a special intensity. Saturday’s meeting on the Charles was no different.Harvard overcame an early deficit off the start with a powerful final 1,500 meters, overcoming Princeton’s early six-to-eight seat advantage...