Word: pleasants
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...reach her," says an aide. So what text messages should her colleagues, coalition partners and electorate be sending? "Well done," for a start. But, also, maybe: "Get a move on." Unless the Merkel Factor translates into tangible economic improvements, the next batch of sms might not make for such pleasant reading...
...making great strides in cross-strait relations.” A graduate of Harvard Law School, Ma joked that he almost named his daughter Cambridge Ma “exactly 30 years ago” when he was studying here. “It’s a pleasant home-coming for me,” he added. Ma told the audience that democracy is not a precondition for him to visit mainland China, but he would like to build more consensus before deciding to visit. “I’m a little bit surprised but pleased...
...Duet?” features a pair of vocalists exchanging proclamations of love—but, as one of the singers reminds us, “one will never forget all the clichés and lies.” Despite the oft-caustic lyrics, these songs are a pleasant listen. For longtime Merritt listeners, they won’t do much that previous Magnetic Fields albums haven’t done already and better (or 6ths albums, or Future Bible Heroes albums, or any of Merritt’s other projects), but “Showtunes?...
...Appalachian drawl, says their biggest problem has not been current events or differing tastes in wall dcor--Ball put up a seductive poster of Jessica Simpson, Almusai a portrait of King Abdullah--but "probably my accent." Kenny Ison, 20, a culinary-arts major from Point Pleasant, W.Va., happily recalls how his roommate, Hatim al-Garzaie, 21, invited him to sit on a rug spread on the floor and dine with a bunch of Saudi students by digging into communal pans of rice and meat. Other nights there have been jam sessions; al-Garzaie turns off his PlayStation, plugs...
...creation of 37 endowed professorships. There are currently 83 endowed professorships at HLS. In addition to overseeing fundraising, Nichols’ other principal responsibility was being a liaison to the school’s alumni. “[Nichols] made soliciting a contribution, normally a distasteful job, a pleasant task,” Finn M. W. Caspersen, a Class of 1966 alumnus who served on the executive committee of the Law School’s first capital campaign and is chairing the current one, said in a statement. Caspersen said that Nichols presided over the “revitalization...