Word: rite
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...three members of the Class of ’06—Rachel S. Bolden-Kramer, HeeWon Lee, and Jasmine Xinting Zhang—won Stride Rite Post-Graduate Fellowships, with $25,000 grants for each senior...
...professional soccer player.”“I call him Crazy Corey,” Johnson said. Producers have said that possible tribal events may include wrestling goats and sticking “a bird beak through your penis” as part of an initiation rite, Johnson said.The show will air on the Discovery Channel in May 2007, Rennell said...
...third straight year, in what has become my own rite of spring, I eagerly eschewed tropical lures to make the five-hour trek from Albany down to eastern Long Island to spend a couple of days holed up in a friend’s basement bunker. Armed with various forecasting publications, reams of statistics and an unhealthy knowledge of the positional depth charts of all 16 National League franchises, we set about carefully assigning dollar values to every player in the N.L. based upon our projections of their 2006 performance. The goal was to develop an approximate plan of action?...
Brace yourselves. A new wave of wine marketing is upon us. Julie Brosterman found herself drenched in it as she strolled the aisles of a Rite Aid in Los Angeles. Surrounding her were towering displays of pink and white wines in bottles bearing such flowery names as Seduction and White Lie. Brosterman, creator of the website womenwine.com derisively dubs them the Virginia Slims of the wine trade...
...Thais will tell you that the annual Songkran festival (April 8 to 16) is all about thanksgiving and family reunions?and so it is. But the best part of it is the license to douse passersby with water. This practice is apparently a rite of purification, but given that temperatures in Bangkok at this time of year can easily reach 35?C, it's also a brilliantly timed excuse to cool off. If you happen to be in the Thai capital?or indeed in any one of dozens of towns and cities across the kingdom?don't think that your...