Word: holidaying
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...During a holiday break back at home in Accra, Delight sits outside his family's tiny house talking with a neighbor who recently returned to Ghana after a failed attempt to get to Europe. Jerry Senanu Nyonator is 28, and like millions of struggling Africans, dreams of working in Europe or the U.S. Three years ago, following the well-worn path of thousands before him, he set out for Europe, catching a bus to Lagos and then to Chad, where he eventually ran out of money and found his papers weren't good enough. "Maybe when I get a passport...
Undergraduates continued to choose the popular Fung Wah Bus service as their mode of transportation home this past holiday weekend despite a recent accident. Last Wednesday, a speeding Fung Wah passenger bus heading from Boston to New York crashed on I-90. The driver, Jimmy Chow, lost control of the vehicle and veered into the right guardrail at Exit 19, near the Allston-Brighton toll booths, according to Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Robert Bousquet. The bus held 35 passengers, none of whom sustained injuries. The disabled bus was towed from the scene, shutting down the Turnpike for five minutes, Bousquet...
...remained stagnant. Each month in 2006, households spent less than they did in the same month in 2005. A Cabinet Office report found that household sentiment swooned in December, and Japan's top three department stores reported declining sales in the run-up to the country's New Year holiday. While unemployment has declined from 5.4% in 2002 to 4.1% at the end of 2006, wages have gone nowhere. According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the average Japanese made $2,881 a month in 2002. For most of 2006, the average monthly wage was only...
...large bell is cast. When asked how often the bells cracked in the process, Vera Director and bellmaster Valery Anisimov replied, “There was an incident last winter.” He explained that it was hard Russian workers to show up to work around holiday time, but quickly reassured Harvard officials: “It won’t happen to your bells.” Adam M. Virgadamo ’07 lives two floors under the bells, and noted unusual bell activity this week. He explained that while the bells typically do not disrupt...
Although the calendar said that this past Wednesday was Valentine’s Day, many of us observed a different holiday: S.A.D.—Singles Awareness Day. Despite constant repetition of the mantra “Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark scam,” we spent the day in secret, inconsolable inner turmoil. Now that the weekend is here, we can finally take advantage of that tried and true emotional balm: alcohol. And what better way to enjoy our loneliness than with a bottle of pink champagne (or any spirituous beverage), and the 2004 romantic...