Word: nods
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...someone who I have a tremendousamount of respect for as a player, a team leaderand a friend. She provides such an emotional liftto every member of our team, and I think that I'vetried to emulate that spirit this year in my ownplay. When Kathy gives us the nod on Saturday, I'mplanning to simply enjoy the moment...
Taking place this week at an estimated 110 college campuses around the nation, the teach-in is a nod to the power of grassroots movements. Recalling the efforts of activist that went before, student organizers of the national event met in Chicago (hello, 1968) this fall to orchestrate the nationwide program. What is remarkable, given the amount of well-traveled organizational roads teach-in student coordinators followed, is how refreshingly new much of the material presented this week has been. Although conducted in the vocabulary of a previous generation, today's activists have a brand new agenda...
...Turkish delight. Holes near the roof line are filled in with little cardboard squares. The windows are half covered in tattered plastic. The men say they are resigned to more bombs destroying their city. "I cannot change it," says a 65-year-old backgammon player as his friends nod agreement, "so I do not worry. I will just defend myself and my country as I can." Americans, he says, "should not do this, because if they do, the world will turn against them." An unemployed engineer says there is no point in preparing for the worst. "What would...
...Square, a grown student could (and still can) find refuge, even sanctuary, in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church behind the Inn at Harvard. We should remember this contribution in less turbulent times when enjoying the church's creative role in the production and performance of theatrical events, including a nod to ancient comedy in last year's "Menaechmi" of Plautus. In the late '60s and early '70s, the church was a center of protest for those politically opposed to the draft and to the Vietnam War as a whole. In the '80s, it was part of the vocal opposition...
...well-preserved body of a 30-year-old woman so obese that her fat had insulated her organs from the effects of decades of frost and thaw. He took both lungs, sliced them into thin strips and carefully packed them for shipment. Hultin named the body "Lucy," a nod to the prehistoric Lucy who shed so much light on human origins...