Word: molds
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...Minister, would take over. In the final, pathetic chapter, Yeltsin evidently agreed to vanish from the political scene as long as Putin didn't pursue corruption cases against him. Putin then undid much of what Yeltsin had accomplished--tolerance (usually) of a free press, for example--and began to mold a Russia that is stronger, surer of itself yet more like the unforgiving Soviet state. Russia is still corrupt, but Putin has rekindled Russians' nostalgia for greatness. His popularity ratings are about 60%. Yeltsin retired quietly to his dacha outside Moscow and died last Monday, seemingly forgotten...
...while it may be hard to imagine how any wood could be reused after the devastation and subsequent mold infestations, finding raw material has been the easy part. Palleroni partnered with a local non-profit called The Green Project, which has operated as a materials exchange for everything from paint to wrought iron for over 12 years. "We're roadkill specialists," says David Reynolds, executive director of The Green Project, who adds that the mold can usually be sanded or wiped off before the wood gets reused. "New Orleans has always been moldy. It's not really bad," he says...
...Harvard grads going into show business have found themselves both helped and hindered by their Cambridge background.PERFORMING AT HARVARDWhile Harvard is best known for producing a high number of I-bankers and consultants, some young artists of Harvard theater have decided to step out of the mold and onto paths less traveled. The College lacks a performing arts department, yet it is unique in that it boasts a lively hands-on theater completely culture dependent on extracurricular involvement. Lauren L. Jackson ’07, a sociology and women, gender, and sexuality studies concentrator who acts, dances, and sings, plans...
...White House speechwriting office. Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Chriss A. Winston, President George H. W. Bush’s onetime head speechwriter, took a few dozen undergraduates on a two-hour tutorial about how to “take a colorless, passionless, humorless lump of words and somehow mold that into a speech that has life and lift.” Having a clear core message—“preferably one with news value”—and conducting thorough research are keys to a successful speech, Winston said. So are personal anecdotes?...
...Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol” is a dwarf. But at 5’10”, Carolyn W. Holding ’10, who plays Lucie in the upcoming Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production, doesn’t quite fit that mold. “She’s very tall and very lovely and beautiful, which is not what Lucie in fact is,” says producer Mollie M. Kirk ’07. Specific physical descriptions were not a priority when Kirk and director C. Calla Videt ’08 cast the production...