Word: happening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...everything that is special about the National Museum in Damascus, Syria. It's supposed to be one of the facility's most famous displays, and yet it isn't signposted. Locating it will tax your orienteering skills to their limit - unless, on your quest through the galleries, you happen to glimpse the attendant Abu Mustapha, which we were lucky enough to do. He will lead you down obscure corridors to an unlabeled door and push it open to reveal a 1,750-year-old Jewish house of worship, painstakingly transported, in its entirety, from its original home on the Euphrates...
...best-selling book; the senior member of the "Committee to Save the World," as this magazine put it in a 1999 cover story; the Federal Reserve chairman who didn't just preside over the longest economic expansion in U.S. history but also was credited with somehow willing it to happen...
...pristine space that Entwistle eventually secured for Goldman's Mumbai headquarters--three floors in a building in the eclectic Prabhadevi neighborhood--certainly looks like the office of a serious investment bank. But it feels more like the postcollegiate playground of a Silicon Valley start-up. Meetings seem to happen as often over cubicle walls as in boardrooms. Goldman employees come back from business trips abroad with a pound of Starbucks coffee for the office. On weekends, you'll find them building houses for the poor or taking the kids to the Entwistles' for Saturday brunch. Every Monday morning, Entwistle gathers...
...believe that this policy will end up hurting the Coop more than it helps them. One of two things will happen as a result of this change...
Halfway through the overcomplicated setup we’d devised for an iPod giveaway during the a capella jam, Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09 pulled a white box from his jacket pocket. “What a coincidence! I happen to have a brand new iPod nano right here!”“You know what I think we should do with it? I think we should give it to a member of the Harvard class of 2011!” The audience that packed Sanders Theater drowned out my last few syllables with screams, whoops...