Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...applications. “I’m using this weekend to catch up on some work,” she said. “I just want to get into grad school.” Research came first for Voranaddha Vacharathit ’10, who spent the holiday in a lab culturing cells. Others said cost and travel time led them to stay put for the holiday. Yuliya S. Nikolova ’09, who is from Bulgaria, said plane tickets were too expensive—and flights too lengthy at 12 to 13 hours each way?...
After a six-hour bus ride on Thanksgiving Day, the Harvard women’s basketball team wasn’t about to let a holiday trip to Maine go to waste...
There was no post-holiday sluggishness for the No. 5 Harvard women’s hockey team on Friday night. The Crimson defeated No. 10 Clarkson (10-4-2, 3-3-0) by a 5-0 count at Bright Hockey Center. Freshman Katharine Chute had two first-period goals and junior Sarah Vaillancourt added four points of her own on a goal and three assists, but the real star of the game was sophomore goaltender Christina Kessler. Kessler recorded 22 saves in notching her third consecutive shutout. She last allowed a goal on Nov. 3 against Princeton, a span...
Thanks to Nancy Gibbs for herthoughts on the rather confusing and sad overlapping of our holidays [Nov.19]. I shopped for a Halloween costume in mid-September for fear there would be none the week before the holiday. Lo and behold, the last week in October, I saw a shift from pumpkins and scarecrows to elves and ornaments--not a costume in sight, and Thanksgiving had just been left in the dust. It's disheartening that holidays have become a retailer's trap for the consumer and that we've lost their real meaning altogether...
...every Briton is ready to join the environmental monkhood. There would go the budget holiday flights to Ibiza, for one thing. But to Smit, it's the spirit that matters, a spirit embodied in his Eden. "It's a horrible clich, but part of our goal is to remake the world," he says. "We're here to help people realize that if they each do a few things, then times 6 billion, that adds...