Word: neatness
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...offers an opportunity to have a neat perspective on all the different things that Harvard does,” he says. “That’s why I took...
...first book in English, Leaving Mother Lake, she expresses herself as a complicated and layered character; a spiritual storyteller with perfect pitch and such an intense yearning to leave her village that she is willing to sacrifice her relationship with her family to do so. Namu has performed a neat trick in exoticizing herself for two different cultures. The real woman lies somewhere in between...
After a cursory examination of the closets, Dr. Neill has her diagnosis. “You don’t need much help. You have everything in the right place. You have put bulky sweaters on the top shelf.” She looks through Closet #1, a neat collection of sweaters, shoes and skirts, with a telltale Jasmine bag hanging on one side. Some black Puma sneakers and a pair of boots are scattered on the closet floor. “One suggestion I would make is to carry over shoe organization from one closet to another...
There's a neat symmetry to Putin's Chechenization scheme. The Chechen war, waged in 1994 by Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin, was supposed to be a brief punitive action against a small, unruly republic. But it ended in August 1996 with at least 80,000 Chechens dead, Russia humiliated and Chechnya independent in all but name. The experience was as scarring for Russia as Vietnam was for the U.S. In late 1999, after a series of apartment-block bombings in Moscow that the Kremlin blamed on Chechen terrorists, Putin, then Prime Minister, ordered the reinvasion of Chechnya, making...
...blond woman in a neat pantsuit gestures at Hollis, and 30 or 40 elderly visitors murmur appreciatively. Thoreau and Emerson lived there? My, my. “Now we’ll head back to the coach and continue our tour with other historic sites of Boston,” chirps the tour guide, herding her charges south out of the Yard. As they leave, French native Marie-Christine translates the “three lies” for her elderly relatives...