Word: grasping
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...race. Nearly 70 students traveled to New Orleans over spring break with the support of the Phillips Brooks House Association alone.The week-long trips offered the students a fast-forward lesson in post-disaster uncertainty and stagnation, and one week might not have been enough time to fully grasp it. Students like Datar witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, visible across the city in everything from dysfunctional traffic lights to the blue tarps marking spots where residents had axed through attic roofs.Later that day in the neighborhood of Gentilly, Smith, looking down at the remains of her home, remembered what...
Hard as it is to grasp, you can live without your thesis. It may have run your life for many months, but now it is time to pick up those activities your left by the wayside for so long. Or, if your leadership positions have all been passed on to underclassmen, create a list of things to do before you graduate that you have always wanted to do but have never had the time to actually do. Now that your thesis is turned in, you really have no excuse...
...must find consensus on ways to revitalize the economy, repair the health system and boost employment. Victories in three state elections on March 26 gave her coalition a lift, but now, for the first time since it won power four months ago, the German government is set to grasp the nettle of domestic policy. Reforms to reduce joblessness and find new money for health care are due as early as June. As her supporters celebrated their election gains, Merkel cautioned that "tough working weeks lie ahead of us." It will take more than such warnings, though, to puncture the bubble...
...Princeton and Cornell, though, Harvard encounters perhaps the two most dangerous challengers to unseat it as Ivy League champion. The Big Red captured the Gehrig Division crown a year ago, wresting it from the habitual grasp of the Tigers...
...first period.After a hooking penalty on Watters at 10:50 left Harvard shorthanded, junior Steve Mandes created a breakaway and rifled a shot at Saints goalie Justin Pesony. Pesony managed to stop the initial shot but did not retain possession of the rebound, which slipped out of his grasp and onto the waiting stick of sophomore Tyler Magura, who slid the puck into the back of the net.The goal was Harvard’s first shorthanded goal of the season and Magura’s first of his career. It could not have come at a better time?...