Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...familiar smell of kalua pig wafted through the room. Kalua pig, the centerpiece of every luau, is fire-roasted on red-hot stones in an underground oven called an imu. I assume that the organizers couldn't pull off the red-hot stones in the frozen MIT ground, but the pig tasted delicious nonetheless. Soon after my arrival there was the inevitable rush to the serving table, replete with the typical luau spread: somen salad, lomi lomi salmon, sushi, kalua pig and cabbage, teriyaki beef, chicken long rice, dimsum, rice, haupia, coconut cake, and chi chi dango. Kama'aina (island...
Hayashida said that though it was a challenge getting such a large production off the ground with such a small college club, "It was totally worth it." "We put this on to spread Hawaiian culture," he said. Talking to him, I saw the importance of the luau, not just to spread Hawaiian culture but also to keep it alive in our lives here in Boston while we're so far from home. Zoe Kwok, a Wellesley sophomore, related that she felt that the luau "was an accurate representation of Hawaiian culture and a great place for people from Hawaii...
...ings and queens who ride in large, open carriages with stern livery boys at their side, stone buildings covered in soot, ground beef served spicy and raw in sidewalk cafes, insane drivers who aim directly for tourists. This is Europe--at least as seen from the perspective of much of America, not excluding our cloistered campus. Many Harvard students, who usually swim valiantly upstream against the flow of conventional ideas, allow themselves to float comfortably along on the current of public opinion when it comes to the Old World...
...juvenile reports that at 4:30 p.m., another juvenile approached him at the Agassiz School and asked if he was wrestling. The victim said "no." The suspect said "let me show you something" and threw the victim to the ground. The suspect then took the victim's hockey stick, hit the victim repeatedly, and kicked the victim several times...
...part, Reich admitted he was in favor of the former interpretation of his party's position, noting the importance of staking "ground which had not been staked," in reference to the large pool of young Americans in search of a compelling political message...