Word: martel
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...environmental initiatives, such as Green Allston, the Green Cup, and other eco-friendly programs, not everybody is gung-ho about the environment. Reasons for anti-Green and Green-neutral thinking abound, starting with plain and simple dendrophobia. “I hate trees,” Frances I. Martel ’09 declares. “I’d rather not look at them.” For Martel, it all boils down to aesthetics: “I’m not a fan of the green and the brown.” While Martel does believe...
...petite and friendly Frances I. Martel ’09 appears an unlikely “Fight Chick,” the moniker bestowed on her when she began writing for the boxing news, analysis, and discussion website Ringtalk.com. “I knew it was going to annoy people,” says Martel, adding with a hint of feistiness, “I liked that.” She got what she wished for. Pedro L. Fernandez, Ring Talk’s editor and self-proclaimed “undisputed King of the airwaves” says Martel?...
...Charles Martel...
...only does not share but too often fails to understand. Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, the Arch-bishop of Paris, points out that the French have a "fascination and aversion" toward the Arabs. "It goes back even to Poitiers, which, as every French schoolboy learns, was where Charles Martel stopped the Arab conquest of Europe in 732." Lustiger could have added that Europeans also have a way of becoming mired in their own history to the point of paralysis...
HEINZ KERRY: I haven't had time. Reading on the campaign trail is studying, studying, studying, studying and newspapers and studying. I've been reading the Life of Pi [Yann Martel] and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight [Alexandra Fuller], little chapters here and there, and A History of the American People by Paul Johnson. And that's all the books I can read right...