Word: sad
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...Drive there was a head impaled, literally impaled. A post was stuck up its neck and it was facing the sky.” The animal remains had come from preparations for Dunster House’s annual spring Goat Roast. “I was just kind of sad someone would do that to the body of an animal,” Means said. Dunster House purchased two slaughtered goats to be roasted at the celebration, according to Mark McCabe, director of the Cambridge Animal Commission. While Dunster has placed a slaughtered goat in the Eliot courtyard in years...
...Camden, N.J. for the all-important Eastern Sprints. At the Sprints, Radcliffe must prove itself worthy of an NCAA tournament bid to continue competition. This means, however, this was the last time the senior class will call the Charles home water.“It’s quite sad,” Demers said of her teammates’ last home race. “You don’t really think about it, because you have Sprints and hopefully we’ll get a bid to NCAAs since we’ve been improving on speed...
...Harvard seniors.“It’s tough,” tri-captain Brooks Scholl reflected. “I’ve been playing lacrosse my whole life, and this is the last time I’ll ever play...It’s sad, but it was a great experience.”Still, for over 1000 fans and the younger players, the pregame ceremony presented an opportunity to celebrate the core of admirable seniors.“[The celebration] was really nice,” Duboe said. “You realize a lot about...
...Obama were putting his personal gyroscope in order for the main act, the press conference in which he said he was "appalled" and "outraged" by his former pastor's views. He did this with typical restraint-his demeanor, as always, precisely presidential-but also with the sad and belated realization that the Wright controversy was not merely a "distraction." It was this year's edition of a problem that has hurt the Democratic Party since the Vietnam era, a fixation on the (often spectacular) deficiencies of superpower governance while slighting this nation's incredible strengths...
...news is that Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda may ask Hu for a new panda. (Japan has eight pandas on loan from China.) The sad passing of Ling Ling could thus become an opportunity for the Chinese President to dramatically improve ties between Tokyo and Beijing. He is already getting the full VIP treatment during his May 6 to 10 tour. Hu will meet with Fukuda, then with the Emperor and Empress, and visit Yokohama's Chinatown as well as the historic city of Nara and the financial center of Osaka. Symbolically, it is already an important trip...