Word: legging
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...Nevertheless, Shi'ite voters were enthusiastic. "We are following our supreme merja, Sistani," said Jafar al-Khazali, a 29-year-old day laborer as his daughter, Sou'ad, clung to his leg. "I will not lose my rights again like before." "I am looking forward to seeing my dreams come true," said Khalida al-Bayati, a Shi'ite housewife. "I want to see my country not like it was under Saddam." Al-Bayati holds no nostalgia for the old regime, having lost a child to cancer that she blames on Saddam's use of chemical weapons...
...Dawson amassed 98 yards rushing combined for his past two games after gaining 342 yards on the ground through his first two contests. The junior has battled hip and leg problems all year long, and with the Crimson passing game struggling, he has routinely faced defenses unafraid to crowd the line...
...only mildly preferable to watching paint dry, I would venture to say that most of us here probably chose Harvard because we wanted to learn, or at least because we expected that going to such a prestigious institution (and learning something along the way) would give us a leg up in the cutthroat world of job applications…and allow us to drop the H-bomb to people we meet in bars.I come here today to tell you, though, that Matt Damon’s claim in “Good Will Hunting” that we could have...
...from over. With his victory, Johnson qualified for nationals in Hawaii. “Going in, I really just try to be consistent,” Johnson said. “I’ve sailed a lot of Lasers outside of college, so I kind of have a leg up on these guys going in, but I don’t think people really expect me to win.”Joining Johnson at nationals will be skipper Vincent Porter and co-captain Sloan Devlin, giving the Crimson three realistic shots at bringing home hardware at the competition...
...then contrasted this number with the fact that Harvard graduated its first African American woman only one century ago.At a dinner banquet on Saturday night, ABHW presented Bonnie St. John ’86 with the Alberta E. Scott Alumna of the Year award. St. John, who had one leg amputated at a young age, won the silver and bronze medals in downhill skiing at the 1984 Paralympics and was also a Rhodes Scholar. She described how visualizing her own dreams of Olympic glory enabled her to overcome poverty and physical disability to become the first African American woman ever...