Word: mate
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Presidential candidate Matthew L. Sundquist '09, who currently serves as the UC's vice president, and running mate Randall S. Sarafa '09, who is the chair of the Council's Finance Committee, represent the only ticket from within...
...were just about the economy, mate, then Australian Prime Minister John Howard would win his country's upcoming election in a walkover. GDP has grown in each of Howard's 11 years in office, and unemployment is at a 33-year low. Yet barring a last-minute shift before polls open on Nov. 24, Howard will be replaced in Canberra, the nation's capital, by Kevin Rudd, leader of the opposition Labor Party--and climate change will be one of the central reasons...
Willey, who plays for Harvard’s polo team and is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said he first started considering a presidential candidacy about a week ago. Willey said he had settled on Caroline R. Williams ’10 as his running mate, but Williams said early this morning that she had not decided to enter the race...
...pronunciation is Ozzies, though we'd rather you Yanks dropped the dumb pseudointimacy altogether and just called us Australians) are all supposed to be as straight as Harrison Ford or John Wayne, despite our superficially confusing habit of addressing a friend or a stranger of the same sex as "mate...
...much paraded dislike of elitism. Mateship--essentially, male bonding--began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that mate was to be a scab, less than a man; such was the hard calculus of colonial life, and its traces are very much alive in Australia today...