Word: raj
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Elsewhere, the Palestinian lawyer and author Raj'a Shehade refines this sullen fatalism as sumud, a word he uses to express his determination to endure and outwait Israel: "Of the two ways open to me as a Palestinian -- to surrender to the occupation and collaborate with it, or to take up arms against it, two possibilities which mean, to my mind, losing one's humanity -- I choose the third way. To remain here. To see how my home becomes my prison, which I do not want to leave, because the jailer will then not allow me to return...
Other Crimson winners yesterday included Paul Gardi, Doug Cohen, Charles Downing, Bobby Greenhill and Raj Mahidhara...
Most of the actors do a good job of playing stuffy, pathetic snobs. Barton is the best of these, and has the most consistent accent. Salloway is good as a faded remnant of British Raj, but the performance I saw, he destroyed the genteel atmosphere with an ad-libbed "Oh shit!" Alexander and Shapiro are a bit bland, though they are probably supposed to be. Constantine Contes, as Jack's manservant, bears the indignities and follies of his employer with wonderful heavenward eye-rolls...
Freshman squash recruits include George Polsky of New York; Bobby Greenhill of Greenwich, Conn; John Masland of Philadelphia; Andy Goodstein of New York; Mike Foster and Raj Mahidara of Pittsburgh, Penn.; and Ernie Lee of San Francisco...
...powerful, multipurpose and expensive, ranging in price from $30,000 to $200,000 apiece. But these bulky hydraulic machines, originally programmed to perform tasks by means of magnetic tape similar to that used in tape recorders, were often inaccurate and susceptible to breakdowns. Says Raj Reddy, director of the Robotics Institute at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University: "U.S. companies dragged their feet on innovation because they wanted to squeeze every last penny out of their existing equipment." Despite those drawbacks, in the early 1980s hydraulic robots appeared to be the best workhorses available for such automated tasks as parts assembly...