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...started with the basic “happy” and “sad,” but then also threw in “confused.” She says that although she spent 15 minutes on it and got really frustrated, all her students could muster was “confu-.” Later that week, in a moment Nguyen calls a “highlight,” her student Tony was banging on a desk during a lesson. When asked why, Tony told Nguyen “I’m confused...
...dress pretty much the same as I would have liked to had I been able to buy all the clothes I wanted during my 20s and 30s. On Drag Night in Adams House, my style is full-on glamour with all the sex-appeal I can muster. Or simply, “Pain is Beauty, Beauty is Pain...
...dozen times a game. Years of deserving to win but having victory snatched away again and again have united the city behind its home team. When the Yankees win, their fans can sit back, their innumerable insecurities temporarily squelched by the sheer athletic power their millions of dollars can muster. But when the Sox win, Boston fans run jubilantly in the streets—a Boston World Series victory would be more than just another ticker-tape parade, it would be another Tea Party. Plain and simply, Boston victories have soul. Even usually cynical Harvard undergraduates have put their books...
...Nittany Lions (2-1) took an early lead with goals in the 19th and 21st minutes. Harvard responded just 76 seconds later, as sophomore back Liza Barber converted the rebound after Hodel’s shot came off the crossbar, but that was all the scoring the Crimson could muster against a team that fell to eventual champion Portland in last year’s national semifinals...
...were less than successful. Diplomats from the U.S., North Korea, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan left the six-sided bargaining table?custom built for the talks?offering few signs of progress. There were no concessions from the principal antagonists, the U.S. and North Korea. The parties couldn't muster enough consensus to release a joint declaration of common goals. And then, on Saturday, the North declared itself uninterested in future meetings. "The talks have made us believe that we have no other choice but to strengthen our nuclear deterrent force," a foreign ministry spokesman railed to North Korea...