Word: learnt
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...Indiana Jones, but we just watch them as films. We don't really take anything from them; there's no wisdom to be learnt really from them. He's an archaeologist with a leather whip...
...representing Jaipur, Mohali or Kolkata? The franchises comprise a hotchpotch of current and retired players from various countries. On what will the players draw to find the will to try their hardest? Gratitude, perhaps, for being paid so well? It was only a few years ago that cricket learnt a hard lesson - players engaged in matches of which the result scarcely matters to them are vulnerable to the charms of bookmakers. In this latest unseemly grab for cash, that lesson appears to have been forgotten already...
...feel that. You graduated from Brown. Who do you root for during football games? CME: I have only just learnt the different between baseball and football, so I am little bit behind in my cheering...
...film: Zbanic does not resort to graphic violence in order to hint at the atrocities of the war. We see it reflected in the women’s lined faces and the men’s gruffness. We hear about it in songs sung in the school bus and learnt at home—the English title of the film is a line from a song about war-torn Bosnia. The well-used pick-up line “Where have I seen you before?” gets the morbid and somewhat unexpected answer: “At postmortem...
...purpose of college education and Harvard’s struggle to define that purpose. When asked about his educational philosophy, Lewis cited former Harvard President James B. Conant ’14, who said that “education is what is left after all that is learnt is forgotten.” —Staff writer Carolyn F. Gaebler can be reached at cgaebler@fas.harvard.edu...