Word: mazes
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...Many other unionists fear his perpetual intransigence is losing them ground. But the reality of Ulster today is that no matter what Paisley does, no one expects any more serious violence. Instead, people are planning more constructive ways to harness the power of the past: turning part of the Maze Prison, where 10 republican inmates starved themselves to death in 1981, into a museum; trying to build a hotel on the site of a recently demolished police station; perhaps erecting a visitors' center where back-packers can come to write messages on the peace line. "This wall's not coming...
...first step is research: take time to talk to people from different fields and learn about the different opportunities out there. Use the resources that Harvard does have—the Office of Career Services, House advisors, friends (!), professors, TFs—to help guide you through this maze. In the midst of intense recruiting season, it can be overwhelming to see friends shuffled through workshops, interviews, and fellowship meetings. But don’t feel like everyone else has it figured out. They don?...
...assistance, and unemployment and social security benefits, as well as register on the computerized nationwide survivors' database and receive advice on filing insurance claims. But first, they have to find the right entrance, get into the right line, and show up with the right forms and documentation - a confounding maze of requirements that can take days to navigate...
After navigating a traffic stop and a dizzying maze of barricades and consulting a half-dozen burly but friendly security guards, I finally found my way to the press tent at the foot of the red carpet to pick up my credential. The staffer begrudgingly handed it over; I don’t think she was expecting any profusely sweating eighteen-year-olds...
This is Andrew Field's third crack at the literary and biographical puzzle that was Vladimir Nabokov. The first, Nabokov: His Life in Art (1967), demonstrated the scholar's grasp of the great man's novels, stories and poems. It was a valuable guide through an intimidating maze of themes and plots; its thoroughness made it a high form of flattery. Field's credo, that a writer's "truest and most palpable biography" is his work, rang with disarming idealism. Nabokov must have been impressed and relieved; his disdain for the genre he defined as "psychoplagiarism" was well known...