Word: prods
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Despite his L.A. stardom and Denzel Washington looks, Bush has no Hollywood act. When U.S.C. players started rapping before a game to keep things loose, they had to prod Bush to join in. He did, briefly, and sat right back down. Though Bush may at times appear aloof, friends say he's just focused. "A bomb could blow up next to him," says Donnie Van Hook, Bush's high school coach, "and he wouldn't even know...
...departmental courses.Some professors expressed reservations about the expansive freedom the proposed curriculum gives students. Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman said that though he supported a distribution requirement, the new system would not force less adventurous students to explore other disciplines.“We want to gently prod these students to explore more widely,” he said. “Three courses in three areas will not encourage exploration.”Feldman proposed as an alternative to the report that students be required to take one course in each of nine areas that would closely...
...passed by shareholders, if only because management lobbies strenuously against it,” John Waggoner, a financial columnist for USA TODAY who has studied Harvard’s investments in closed-end funds, writes in an e-mail. Waggoner notes, however, that shareholder activism, even if unsuccessful, can prod management to take action to boost a fund’s share price...
...Fiennes tends to withhold, director Meirelles likes to probe and prod a subject from a dozen oblique angles. That could have made for a schizophrenic movie, but this time, opposites attract: the actor and the director make a smart pair. The result is a First World story seen through the acute eyes of a Third World auteur--a film of nuance and power, flawlessly acted and an adventure to watch, with the aftertaste of an aspirin laced with cyanide...
America's atomic project dated from 1939, when Albert Einstein warned Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany was trying to develop atomic weapons based on an isotope of uranium, U-235. The American nuclear program thus commenced under the sharp prod of fear that Germany would win the race to be the first atomic power. It is fully reasonable to assume that the first U.S. bomb would have been used against Germany had it been available in time...