Word: nut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flesh-and-blood Gandhi was a most unlikely saint. Just conjure up his portrait: a skinny, bent figure, nut brown and naked except for a white loincloth, cheap spectacles perched on his nose, frail hand grasping a tall bamboo staff. This was one of the century's great revolutionaries? Yet this strange figure swayed millions with his hypnotic spell. His garb was the perfect uniform for the kind of revolutionary he was, wielding weapons of prayer and nonviolence more powerful than guns...
...changed a lot. First of all, politically. People who know me will find this hard to believe, but I have moved significantly to the left while I have been at Harvard, though I am still one of the most conservative people here. I showed up basically a right-wing nut, and right now I am just mainstream conservative, whatever that means. Other than that, I have become more convinced of the idea that hard work is necessary in order to achieve anything. I have realized that being robotic is not an ideal. When I came here and through most...
...CONSUMERREPORTS.ORG, only Amazon.com wins top honors for "a very satisfying shopping experience." Rated by the five-point system used in the print magazine, the site evaluates e-merchants based on content, usability and policies. Lillian Vernon's catalog site is labeled "inconvenient" and "tedious," while the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut site gets dinged for its "poorly cross-referenced search engine." Just so-so sites include Victoria's Secret, Frederick's of Hollywood, Brookstone and The Sharper Image.The detailed ratings are available to members who pay $24 a year...
...Burton] said "Grow your hair long and get real pale"--yes, that was my real hair in the movie--and I also gained 30 pounds. Gaining weight was actually a difficult thing for me. I'm a health nut, so it was hard. I ate eight meals a day and had four protein shakes a day and two weightgainer bars a day and I cut out cardio. It took me three months to gain it. (Afterwards I became a total vegan for six months and I lost it in a month and a half). I got four copies of Sleepy...
...Move to table behind me and sit with Rodney Yeh '03, who is eating Apple Jacks with Fruit Loops. He complains, "They mixed it up--it's supposed to be honey nut." "That sucks," I commiserate. He nods...