Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sitting at the foot of a rabbi among a group of students, wearing his large, Knitted yarmulke on his head and looking at a Hebrew text of Talmud in his lap, Michal J. Geller '95 participates in the age-old Jewish custom of arguing...
...chairman of Microsoft, about something he wants to talk about-like a new software system or his upcoming railroad trip through China on Chairman Mao's train -- and he acts like the teenage boy that he still resembles. He grins. His voice breaks. He tucks his elbows into his lap and rocks back and forth as if to contain his excitement. But press Gates on a subject he doesn't want to talk about-like the charges of anticompetitive, and possibly illegal, business practices that have been turning up lately, like ex-girlfriends at a wedding party...
...centerpiece of Bela Fleck's music is his banjo. Now, maybe your image of a banjo is something that sits on Granny Smith's lap while she strokes Flash the basset hound and waits for the Confederate boys to boot the Yankees out of Atlanta. There is still hope for redemption, even for those prejudiced few who've let their musical image of the banjo be perverted by Roscoe P. Coltrane and Boss...
Mandatory voting would put the responsibility for the country's fate squarely in the lap of every adult citizen. This allotment of responsibility gives the only credible incentive for awareness and activism. Anti-paternalists could be placated by giving particularly motivated citizens the opportunity to sign up as 'conscientiously objecting non-voters...
While B.U.'s victory lap at the Providence Civic Center brought the crowd to its feet, the best game of the Final Four took place in Thursday's first semifinal...