Word: jamaica
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Today, the department has 15 faculty members, as well as visiting scholars including Spike Lee and Jamaica Kincaid...
Edward Sepanek, 44, of 65 Glen Road in Jamaica Plain was arrested by a Harvard police officer and charged with larceny from a building after he allegedly took the purse of a female employee of the Fairchild Biology Laboratory, located at 17 Divinity...
...bonus, Gates has brought in author Jamaica Kincaid and producer Spike Lee as visiting professors...
...medal list with an impressive total of 101. The term dominance has been casually applied. A more telling comparison of sporting achievement would be a "power rating" of countries--medals in relation to population. On this fairer basis (medals per 10 million people), the Top 10 Olympic countries were Jamaica (with 23.4), Cuba, Australia, Hungary, New Zealand, Bulgaria, Norway, Trinidad and Tobago, Belarus and the Netherlands. In this ranking, the U.S. stands 36th among the 57 countries that won more than one medal. A power rating would show the true athletic achievement of many smaller countries. ROBERT CARMICHAEL Coralville, Iowa...
...born in Jamaica in the 1950s and championed by the likes of Bob Marley in his early career, Ernest Ranglin (who has a new CD out) and the Skatalites (ditto). In the late '70s ska resurfaced in the unlikely setting of Coventry, England, where the small but influential 2-Tone label brought back the sound with acts like the Selecter and the Specials (who just released a comeback...