Word: heapings
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...many different Yale affiliates. After all, the founding of Yale was based upon the biggest mistake of all when, in 1701, a group of ten Harvard alums thought they could do better than their school along the Charles. They came together, threw all of their books into a heap to form a “library,” and declared a new college established. Yale, then called the Collegiate School, spent its infant years getting passed around from city to city like a plate of cheap hors d’oeuvres until its founders finally settled on New Haven...
...law” as paramount among the reasons he endorsed him. Yet the purpose of the Justice Department is to enforce the law. Respect for the law is surely a basic requirement for any nominee for the highest law enforcement post in the land, not a reason to heap on the accolades...
...collective egotism that, by the end of our time at Harvard, all we really ever want is to pretend to start hating the Red Sox. We’ve been trained to be king of the hill and taught that we can’t be top of the heap if we don’t live within easy reach of Penn Station. Harvard’s worldly education only seems be preparation for a small handful of U.S. Zip codes.I’m okay with the prospect of never being part of the Ivy-encrusted Uptown elite...
...There are still reports... of people trying to build bombs in Sinaa right now," Capt. Miller told a group of civic, business and religious leaders who met clandestinely Friday at a Marine outpost amid the junk heap of Fallujah's former industrial hub. "We don't need any more gunfire; we don't need any more bullets; we don't need any more explosions," he said. "This area is very important to Fallujah. No more suicide bombers should be here.... Let's get people back to work and force the insurgents...
...forced to pass on the costs to homeowners, increasing the chances of a consumer spending slowdown and a weakening economy. That prospect - and the dramatic half percentage point cut to 4.75% by the U.S. Federal Reserve to its key federal funds rate, its first cut in four years - will heap pressure on the Bank of England to reduce U.K. rates, now at 5.75%, before the end of the year. A big enough cut, and people may well start rushing back to lenders' branch offices: this time, to refinance their mortgages...