Word: lightful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recently renovated their homes, thus increasing their value, Healy said. At the May budget meetings, Healy had said that taxes would likely go up to accommodate a budget increase, which the Council set as five percent over the summer. Calling the results “phenomenal” in light of the “volatile times,” Councilor David P. Maher also noted that the city is in the midst of building a new library and refurbishing its war memorial. Tax rates in fact increased from the fiscal year 2008 rate from...
...academic and journalistic luminaries, including Patrick J. McDonnell of the Los Angeles Times, who addressed immigration law, and Nina Bernstein of The New York Times, who focused on immigration’s future. “It’s an issue that is still very important, especially in light of the economy,” said Tommy Tomlinson, a Nieman Fellow who is a columnist for The Charlotte Observer. “For immigrants that are still here, if unemployment rises, they will be seen as stealing American jobs.” Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco...
...conductor,” she said after the talk, referring to her predecessors. Attendee Jessica J. Means ’09, who said that her two main passions were biology and music, praised Jobin’s decision to pursue a career that is not considered mainstream, especially in light of the overall shortage of women leaders in music. “It was very refreshing to see Sara as a female and a conductor who is very successful,” Means said. Although Jobin said she found gender has not affected her work or her music, she recognized...
With strobe light flashing and techno music blaring, seven Harvard students dressed in skimpy clubwear raved in one corner of Lowell Dance Studio on Friday evening. Gyrating in front of the studio’s mirrored wall, the dancers were filming the club scene of a music video for the song “Predator,” a pop sensation by Peter C. Shields, Jr. ’09. For Shields, known as “Petros” in the Greek music world, this was his third music video and the second-ever to exclusively feature Harvard students...
...then there’s the collider itself. Statistics about it don’t even sound real. Particles will reach 99.9999991 percent of light speed. Temperatures can drop to 456.25 degrees below zero. We’ll find the “God Particle!” (Not quite as apocalyptic as it sounds...