Word: knit
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...McCain world, they are the campaign. All have different motivations. McKinnon was an integral part of the Bush attacks that undid McCain in 2000; for him, the service is almost like penance. Salter hasn't worked for anyone else for almost twenty years. McCain himself sees this close-knit group as friends as much as staffers. Asked how he keeps up his grueling campaign schedule, McCain says, in part, "I couldn't do it without these jerks." What effect does their unpaid status have on their advice? McKinnon volunteers, "It's easier for him to ignore...
...which are collected in the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book revered as the eleventh Guru. The religion claims 23 million followers today, 76 percent of whom live in the Indian state of Punjab. Although they make up only 2% of the wider Indian population, they are a close-knit and prosperous community with a strong cultural affiliation. But the battle to preserve the turban may well be the toughest facing the Sikhs since they were first rallied as a martial nation by their tenth Guru, Gobind Singh, in 1699, to fight the oppressive Mughal rulers of India. A rehatnama...
Under Wasserman’s small, close-knit group of editors, the magazine that slid into obscurity after attracting a burst of nationwide publicity several years ago is undergoing a bit of a revival...
...first glance on a recent afternoon, Roy T. Willey IV ’09 and Nicholas B. Snow ’09 look like an unlikely pair to be running together to lead the student body. Willey wears a light-green cable-knit sweater with an orange Ralph Lauren logo matching the orange-pink collared shirt layered carefully underneath. Snow dons a blue raincoat thrown over a plain white T-shirt and jeans...
...little weird,” McGeary said. “I still have a lot of friends on that team. When you play on a college team, your teammates become kind of an extension of your family. We were with each other everyday and were a real tight-knit group. On the other hand, we’re looking at it as just another game we need to win.”“From talking to my friends on the team, their offense has changed a lot,” McGeary said. “Last year...