Word: molds
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...most of the first five and a half years in office, titles notwithstanding, Bush didn't have a chief of staff. Andy Card was many things: family friend, trusted aide, personal assistant. But he was never a chief of staff in the Jim Baker/Ken Duberstein/Leon Panetta mold. Those men played a different hand: they stood at the cross section of policy and politics, managed the process beneath them and teed up the crucial decisions for their boss. Outside of national security matters, they did not share the job with anyone...
...winners briefly addressed those in attendance. “Be truthful, be yourself, be humble,” said award recipient Lawrence E. Adjah ’06, the former president of the Black Students Association. “You don’t come here to fit a mold. You come here to make history.” Adjah, Tracy T. “Ty” Moore II ’06, and Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06 received the senior awards, while Jon E. Gentry ’07, Ofole Mgbako...
...also opposed the addition of a new runway at the airport since the 1970s.But Gordon downplayed the obstacles he faced.“We had our challenging projects, but generally we completed our work in good shape,” he says.Gordon added that the Logan project helped mold his approach in dealing with residents. “You’ve gotta be honest with them,” Gordon says. “When people are too cute, too flashy, they see through it immediately.” Fred Moavenzadeh, a professor of systems engineering and civil...
...block. Many of the materials, like the lead singer’s rusty microphone, are brought to him by friends.Those items are the casualties of the hurricane. Though Katrina came and left seven months ago, the aftermath is still apparent. In this neighborhood, homes sag in the middle, inside mold climbs up the walls, spreading outward in black splotches. The waters from the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain pooled in the nooks of cabinets and other hidden places. Worse are the silent, empty homes filling so many neighborhoods. Sometimes, from the skeleton of a house, a homeowner wearing a surgical...
...There isn’t always a native language that people can turn to for writing or cultural expression,” declares Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language Sharmila Sen ’92. “Instead, people learn to mold and shape the language that they have.” Such statements are indicative of Sen’s provocative method of examining text from a cultural and historical perspective. Through this inquiry into the choices in language and text, Sen’s work illuminates the space between what...