Word: river
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...their part, “The Feminine Mistakes” enthusiastically praised host Dan P. Donato for his “hot bod.” Sadly, hot bodies won’t help you with obscure questions that range from geography (What’s the river that runs through Dublin?) to the profoundly disturbing (How many books in the Harvard University library system are known to be bound in human skin?). If you can’t, for some reason, answer these questions, start hitting the books: Prizes include a $30 gift certificate and enough beer to make...
Reacting to Harvard’s plan to bury Soldiers Field Road and build a new pedestrian bridge across the Charles, Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin was quoted in The Boston Globe as making the nonsensical, inflammatory remark, “The University is treating the river like some moat that they own.” Only a politician with deep-seated animosity towards our fair University would openly deride such an ingenious plan to beautify Boston at no taxpayer expense. It should come as little surprise that Galvin sports a thick Boston accent...
...when Scott Denenberg was choosing a college, he was told that if he was looking to play tennis, Harvard was not the place for him. Denenberg made Harvard his place nonetheless, and, through three-and-a-half years of grueling work, proved he belongs on the courts across the river every bit as much as he belongs on the cobblestones of Cambridge. With his exemplary ethic, he established his place on the men’s tennis team and earned the respect of his teammates and coaches and the honor of the co-captain title. Arriving on campus...
...coaches was a TF,” Harris says. “I don’t know if it’s the same with other coaches, but I definitely feel like there’s a difference between what you do on one side of the river and the other...
...where to go fishing, his favorite pastime. In Prague, he is tilting at bureaucratic windmills in order to angle a fishing permit. He used to fish in the Czech town of Olomouc, where he played with another team. But in all the time he spent at the local river there, he managed to catch only "one trout and a karpyonka [Russian for carp]." He is mystified about the kind of bait Eastern European fish prefer. "I don't know what they eat here. I try sausage, popcorn, but they...