Word: ribboning
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...mini-republics that the U.S.S.R. released like so many Tootsie Rolls from a piñata in the 1990s have not exactly turbocharged the Central Asian economy. And while Pakistan may have seemed like a nifty idea around the time they cut the ribbon, it's been plagued by troubles pretty much ever since - including the, uh, secession of Bangladesh...
...unrealistic to think the murder rate could ever fall to zero, could murders in the quadruple digits be something we no longer have to endure? "No one knows for sure why crime rates fell in New York and Chicago, and in the absence of a blue-ribbon commission of experts who can get to the bottom of this mystery, we are all left with just speculation, conflicting theories, and self-serving claims for credit by interested parties, including police departments and elected officials," said Andrew Karmen, a criminal expert at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York...
...course, [we're] walking in the footsteps of heroes like Studs Terkel, who cut the ribbon on our first booth. It's all about the idea that our stories, the stories of everyday people, are as interesting and as important as the nonsense we get about celebrities 24 hours a day from all corners. If you really take the time to listen, you'll find poetry and grace and eloquence and humor in the stories of people we find all around...
...common room of her Mather quint. She locks their hooked ends together, and for a moment it looks like she is going to swing them over her head in lethal, long-handled circles. But then she puts the knives down. She wants to show off the thick sparkly ribbon she sewed in high school, as well as the sequined ballroom dance costume she just finished altering. “I love glitter,” she says. ALTER EGOLiles is Harvard’s only baton twirler. Her twisting, kicking, spinning routines have enlivened Harvard University Band?...
There’s a flurry of white ribbons across campus as Harvard continues a week-long campaign against violence toward women. Students are wearing ribbons from Dec. 6 to Dec. 13 to show their support for the international movement, which is sponsored here by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) and an assortment of student groups and administrative bodies. “It’s to raise dialogue, bring it out to the open,” said Matthew G. Kessler ’09, a member of Harvard Men Against Rape, which is supporting...