Word: nap
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Each summertime witnesses a diaspora of Harvard ambition. In New York’s stockbroking looms, Harvard expatriates watch the shuttle of industry fly back and forth for 90 hours a week and try not to get their fingers jammed. While others nap, we are stuffing our pockets and Palms with the telephone numbers and email addresses of the well-connected. We are discovering proteins; we are debating philosophy; we are disassembling poverty...
...Other commentators say Tatchell has missed the point entirely. They argue that reggae artists don't create homophobia, but merely reflect the realities on the ground. "In Jamaica we grew up in a homophobic society and the Bible is what we go by," explains Vincent Nap, a Britain-based reggae artist. "You can't expect us to turn around like our religion doesn't matter...
...Nap and other reggae purists, most of the homophobia has been generated by dancehall music - the genre's aggressive offspring - and is not considered to be a true example of the reggae ideals of peace and mutual tolerance...
...while Democrats make a show tonight of unfolding cots to nap and debate through the night, it is important to remember that they are doing this more to convince their Republican colleagues to sway Bush, rather than out of any real desire to inherit the war themselves...
...daffodils and tulips that delight tourists who come to the nation's capital. She was more than a gardener. She was one of the first true environmentalists of our times. Even LBJ liked the idea, complaining proudly one day that he had a hell of a time taking a nap because Lady Bird and Laurence Rockefeller and a bunch of other beautification folks down below his bedroom were holding a meeting and talking loud and he could not go to sleep. "She's going to beautify us right out of existence," he said...