Word: mold
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...important to be aware of the flexibility of Harvard life: to do our best to fit it to our individual needs, and not feel trapped in one particular mold. At the same time, however, as my neighbor’s house reminds me, there is one overriding principle: as we try to balance our classes, roommates, housing, clubs and concentrations with what we want and who we are, that we not break the house...
...around 60 pounds since last fall. (She first began a weight-loss push in her senior year, walking into Leizer’s spinning class in Martinsville in anticipation of appearing in Glamour.) After all, how purportedly feminist can a pageant be if you have to fit that societal mold of thinness? She scorns these criticisms, even listing the weight loss as her “greatest achievement” in the pageant magazine...
...nations’ intransigence on the issue of agricultural subsidies. According to a recent Oxfam trade report, Northern governments currently shell out one billion dollars in agricultural subsidies every day. But perhaps the most interesting thing about the subsidies controversy is its failure to conform to any simple ideological mold. By making free trade advocates of the developing countries, it turns the usual caricature of the globalization debate on its head...
Monty Python was British comedy's answer to the Beatles: the Fab Six who broke the mold, broke records, broke America and were idolized by kids who learned by heart every routine from the Flying Circus television show - and knew their parents would never get the joke. The Pythons were rock 'n' roll. So writing a definitive, collective autobiography to set the record straight - just as the Beatles did in their Anthology - is no act of hubris. And for all those now-grownup kids who still beg them to re-form and do the dead-parrot sketch one more time...
Ogbechie’s success was not immediate. In fact, she spent a lot of time on the bench that first year. “But I was coordinated—I could run and jump and do physical things—and the coaches definitely wanted to mold me into a better player,” she said. “I was very...