Word: rhode
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...even the President had shifted to calling the government's response "not acceptable," the No. 2 at FEMA sounded as though he had been monitoring a different hurricane. "I am actually very impressed with the mobilization of man and machine to help our friends in this unfortunate area," Patrick Rhode told TIME. "I think it's one of the most impressive search-and-rescue operations this country has ever conducted domestically." That day, members of Congress called for hearings...
Less than eight years after amassing over 2,000 square miles of forest land, Harvard will sell two-thirds of its holdings in the United States and New Zealand—a combined area larger than Rhode Island—to the Hancock Timber Resource Group (HTRG), the Boston-based investment firm announced Wednesday...
...deeply pious Puritan clergyman who believed that civil authorities had no business enforcing religious views. (He also thought the British Crown had no power to grant to settlers land that belonged to Indians.) After his views got him banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams founded Rhode Island as a haven of toleration and freethinking. Gaustad's timely little book reminds us that those are the enduring foundations of American civilization...
Harvard brought its record back to .500 with a busy first week of April. The team swept twinbills from Rhode Island and Quinnipiac, rounding into the top form conspicuously absent during its rust-plagued start in March...
Expeditions organized by the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) and the Harvard College Democrats carried students to New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and South Carolina. There, they often slept on cold floors, subsisted on diets of caffeine and candy, and helped coordinate local operations—sometimes even compromising GPA’s in the process...