Word: graying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...motorcade flew down Pennsylvania Avenue just after 8 a.m. last Tuesday, sirens screaming and lights flashing--two white police cruisers, five black town cars and a gray staff van. Was it the President? Or the Vice President? Nah--it was just the Iraq Study Group, Washington's new shadow government, on another emergency run, this time from the White House, where its members told George W. Bush how to get out of Iraq, up to Capitol Hill, where they preached bipartisanship and renewed diplomacy--as well as the promise of withdrawal from Iraq by 2008. It's not often that...
...doing. Tutoring is best in small doses: not too much to overwhelm children, but enough so that they can develop genuine appreciation and enjoyment of math. Students are going to need a lot of support from parents because the distinction between Kumon and mindless repeated labor can be very gray at times...
Julio Vargas sits quietly in a small gray house in Red Springs, North Carolina, making notes in his native Spanish before another day of working to organize Smithfield Foods meatpacking workers. Vargas, originally from Mexico, was fired from his sanitation contractor job for Smithfield, in nearby Tar Heel, N.C., in 2003 after protesting working conditions. Now, an organizer for the United Food Commercial Workers Union, he is part of a growing nationwide effort to organize what was once considered a no-win labor population: Latino immigrant workers...
Georges Bizet’s Carmen blares from the computer of Menyoung Lee ’10. The boys sit scattered around their gray worktable, their eyes telltale red and fingers sore from countless hours at their laptops, dutifully LaTeXing problem sets. They have been here since 2 p.m. and will work for almost 12 straight hours to complete the problem set due the following...
...Prodigal Summer” humans are just another species on the earth, physical creatures with their needs and desires. This physicality does not diminish humanity, but elevates it. The next time you need an escape from the gray winter of Harvard, open “Prodigal Summer” and immerse yourself in a lush, sensuous world where wildness can still be found...