Word: leaning
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...just looking forward to our next race and getting faster.” Rasmussen agreed, saying that Saturday’s performances showed that the Crimson boats were “rowing competitively up there with the best.” “We’re lean, we’re mean, we’ve got a few seconds to glean, and in the next few races, we’re really going to do something worth seeing,” he said. —Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...college need not be complicit in the purported crimes of its students. Regardless of pressure from the RIAA, it is not the task of a university to patrol cyberspace in search of wrongdoing. The music industry has been able to investigate (and litigate) piracy before, and it should not lean against campus administrators to take up the helm of prosecution on this count. While it is regrettable that piracy threatens the livelihood of musicians around the world, the RIAA has adopted the wrong response strategy to this phenomenon. Litigation may persist, but the problem of lost revenues will never...
...apply to “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas.” Although visually interesting—giant eyeballs and colorful umbrellas popped up throughout the show—what made “Secret Lives” unusual was the fact that it didn’t lean upon images to justify itself aesthetically...
Delight Kofi Aka was born in 1988, justas things in Ghana began to improve. Now 18, Delight is tall and lean, with the naive swagger of someone who has not yet known failure. He is in his final year at a boys' Catholic boarding school in the Volta region, one of the best in Ghana. The family cannot afford to pay the school fees (some $600 a year), but two years ago, Suzzy convinced her pastors at Global Evangelical that her son was gifted and deserved a scholarship. Grandfather Kwame paid the $150 entrance fee, and Delight was handed...
...since 1990, when I had a summer job in Austin, Texas, where Whole Foods began in 1980. If I was going to decide whether to buy organic or buy local, I figured Whole Foods' ceo, John Mackey, could help me. After all, he is vegan, and his politics lean libertarian, so he thinks hard about different paths. And he has made a great fortune by joining two previously antagonistic alimentary impulses--health and excess...