Word: novas
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...actually had someone tell me that my English was really good in my freshman year,” Hayley Margio ’10 of Halifax, Nova Scotia recalled...
...always would be. It was the only New World country to have a monarchy, which it abolished in 1889. That regal tradition spawned a quasi-feudal class system that made Brazil a stained paradise in the 20th century: a country with endless beaches, heavenly climate and sensual bossa nova culture, but also appalling poverty, social inequality and military dictatorship. By the 1980s, the country was mired in what Sotero recalls as fracassomania, an obsession with its failures...
...beach volleyball, triathlon, marathon swimming, race walking, road cycling, weightlifting, hockey, mountain biking and modern pentathlon. Rio has promised to spend $427 million on an athlete's village that replicates "the outdoor lifestyle of Rio's beachside neighborhoods" (and no doubt swings to the sounds of samba and bossa nova). And, for an even greater taste of Brazil, a dedicated shuttle bus will take athletes to a beach set aside exclusively for participants...
...memorial service held Friday afternoon, friends, family, and colleagues spoke of Maher’s witty and personable nature as well as his time in the British Royal Navy and the summers he spent in Nova Scotia with his family...
...really matters. Kathleen Dwyer, a retired assistant principal who has been exchanging for six years, says she fielded lots of offers to swap when she posted her apartment in Manhattan. Now that she exchanges only her vacation home--an old sea captain's house in a fishing village in Nova Scotia--swapping inquiries have slowed to a trickle...