Word: prized
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...Douches emeriti" picks. Harvard has a nearly endless crop of potential options—Henry Kissinger, Ted Kaczyinski, Jared Kushner, etc.—and we get these four. Benazir Bhutto? For real? Last we checked, Bhutto won an international human rights prize before being assassinated. And she's classified by the oh-so-knowledgeable GQ editors as one of the top four examples of "the Harvard douche." Are they out of their minds? (Mira Sorvino also seems like a pretty random choice, but pales in comparison...
...Here” and “See You.” Barlow’s songwriting contributions, usually comparatively minor, and always a bit heavy-handed thematically, punctuate Mascis’ set nicely, particularly the exhilarating closer, “Imagination Blind.” But the prize still belongs to Mascis, whose songwriting seems perfectly attuned to the chemistry that the trio had developed, weirdly uninterrupted after nearly two decades apart. Nowhere is this more true than on “I Want You To Know,” a blissfully heavy blast of lovesick joy that?...
...place. Located in the crumbling Indian Ocean port of Sittwe, Shwe Zedi was the monastery of U Ottama, a revered monk whose pacifist resistance against the colonial British inspired independence hero Aung San, father of Suu Kyi. In 2002, this was one of the few places the Nobel Peace Prize winner visited between stints of house arrest, and she called for political change from its lawn. Then, two years ago this month, Shwe Zedi was among the first places in Burma to organize pro-democracy rallies, a doomed effort that ended in the junta gunning down unarmed demonstrators. "At first...
...classmates is an Olympic gold medalist. Another won a Nobel Prize. One donated enough money to the university that a building was named after him. One caused a change in the course of U.S. history. Only the first of these events was predictable during college. On the other hand, my guess is that 10 percent of my classmates are in poor financial straits. When one such tried to speak up at a reunion, he was ignored...
...sounding content in a recent interview. She was attending a track meet in Pudukkottai, where she returned after losing her medal. "It was difficult but now finally I feel O.K.," she says with a laugh. The state government of Tamil Nadu awarded her a television set and a cash prize as a show of support after Doha. Soundarajan took that money - a little more than $30,000 - and in 2007 started a sports academy in Pudukkottai. About 68 students now train there, including two who she says won medals at the Chennai marathon. "I like to train children who have...