Word: pecks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Outside the Obama home, calves are grazing on the thick green grass that grows here in one of Kenya's most fertile regions. Plowed fields stand ready to be sown with maize. And scrawny chickens peck for grubs in the shade of mango trees. Inside, Granny Sarah's simple sitting room is plastered with black-and-white photographs of Obama Senior - the stepson she raised as her own - alongside Obama Junior's campaign posters...
...would be easy. And all of that is true." Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, says no one works an Oscars event or the red carpet like him. "Clooney is a kind of exception to the rule of celebrity aloofness. Gregory Peck was that way. Totally open. Unabashed. You've got to be not afraid," he says. No other stars are as unfreaked out by their own celebrity, since, like most politicians, they want it either too much or too little. And it's that ability to be constantly not afraid that makes women...
...Harvard career has been a very ethnocentric one,” says April Youpee-Roll ’08 with a big smile. Youpee-Roll, the former president and current alumni coordinator of Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC), is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Sioux tribe, the center of her ethnocentric life. “She has a strong sense of self,” says Mark D. Doolin ’08. “Her Native American identity is at the forefront of how she approaches her academics, her job, her activities—there...
Under my plan, the airlines would modify their caste system, evidently modeled on ancient India's, in which Platinum cardholders board before Gold, who board before Silver and so on, until we odious hunchbacks in straphanger class are allowed to board, trailing our leashed chickens as they peck their way down the aisle...
...probably fun if you’re married, but what if you’re not?Imagine bringing a date to cheer on the Crimson, and suddenly, you’re caught on the Kiss Cam and broadcast to the entire arena. What do you do? Go for the peck on the cheek or the open lips? Thankfully, the men of Harvard don’t have to face that split-second, potentially live-altering decision. While imagining the Harvard hockey experience as a public relations fanfare corporate-sponsored to within an inch of its life makes would be pretty...