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...Frost. More impressively, Conservative party Member of Parliament Clive Betts last week introduced a motion into Britain's parliament condemning the pejorative use of McJob. Betts believes the OED should redefine the term: "It would be helpful if the dictionary took the lead on this. It's not a proper and true reflection of the service industry today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McDonald's Alter the Dictionary? | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

Money from the PHC also addressed a different kind of overcrowding—that of Harvard’s undergraduate drama spaces. “Apart from antiquated Sanders, Harvard still has no proper theatre. Student producers must make do with what space they can find: common rooms and dining halls, a museum courtyard, a disused swimming pool, even a roped off street,” the program wrote in promotional material. New York investment banker John L. Loeb ’24 contributed $1 million of the $1.5 million needed for the Loeb Drama Center, which opened...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Preparing the Age that Was Coming | 6/1/2007 | See Source »

...most of Fried's lectures on the island were organized by an NGO called Familias Saludables, he was determined to address as many people as possible during a recent week-long stay. Hours before the Flowers Bay talk, which had been canceled because the organizers could not find a proper venue, he found Mrs. Warner, a wizened elderly resident, who offered up her front lawn - a patch of windswept dirt - for the event. Fried managed to borrow several plastic chairs from the Sea Breeze Bar across the street. A single lightbulb hooked onto a long electrical cord and suspended from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Caribbean Getaway Becomes an AIDS Hot Spot | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

...finishing their filming and descending the mountain, all the while aware of what they were abandoning. If there was any consolation as they headed for home, it was that within a year the snows of Everest, in a final act of mercy, would provide the lost climbers with a proper and permanent burial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Without Mercy | 5/26/2007 | See Source »

...Baghdad's al-Dolai district last month shot her husband Amer dead before her eyes and torched all her worldly possessions. And the fear that the killers may come back for her and her two little children prevented her from mourning her husband. "I could not hold a proper wake for him," says the young widow. "He deserved at least that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iraq, Every Day Is Memorial Day | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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