Word: pickings
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...Chrysler showrooms will also be featuring new Chryslers. Press says the company also has eight new products, including a hybrid pick-up truck and electric vehicles set to role out over the next 18 months. While Chrysler has trimmed its engineering staff in the face of the financial crisis, it has kept the important projects alive, Press says...
...theater—and how he can expand the definition. The active member of Harvard theater began his creative exploration as a child, when he would orchestrate what he calls “haunted hayrides.” “We would create enormous spider webs, pyramids and pick-up trucks filled with hay,” he says. His play “Black-eyed Susanna,” written in his senior year of high school, won the Phyllis Anderson Prize for Playwriting in 2006 and was produced in Berlin the next year...
However, one glitch in the process remains—instead of going to the box office like everyone else, students using SEF must visit a separate table at the door of the event to pick up their tickets. While trivial at first sight, this pickup procedure reinforces socioeconomic divisions on campus by singling out some of the poorest students at Harvard...
Luckily, the problem seems to be easily fixable. Students should be given the option to pick up their tickets at the box office in the Holyoke Center instead of at the SEF table. This way, the SEF ticket would be a private matter. Students would simply go to the box office, display their SEF credentials, and receive their ticket. At the door of the actual event, they would be welcomed in just like everyone else...
...Scout Day for head coach Joe Walsh’s hopeful squad, a day on which talent representatives from major league clubs arrive with pens and pads and eyes carefully trained to pick out the best the amateur baseball ranks have to offer. It was a time for Crimson prospects to look their best, but for them and their new student manager, freshman West Resendes, it was also the start of a season, a connection, a bond...