Word: savannah
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...Savannah Guthrie, an attorney and Court TV’s anchor for this case, notes that Pring-Wilson’s lawyers might be trying to draw attention away from their client’s elite status...
...Australia's many untamed expanses, Arnhem Land, the vast spread of savannah, swamps and crocodile-infested rivers on the northeastern tip of the Northern Territory, remains one of the wildest. A handful of settlements dot its 95,000-sq.-km area, and the unsealed 750-km road that crosses it is passable only in the dry season. When anthropologist Donald Thomson, whose writings on this enigmatic region will be republished this month in Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land (Miegunyah Press; 264 pages), arrived there just 70 years ago, it was also feared by many whites, who had heard stories...
...evening ended, predictably enough, with a performance by Kuumba, the university’s we’re-culturally-diverse showpiece. (As member Savannah J. Frierson ’05 put it last year in a Crimson opinion piece, speaking of another Harvard performance: “we were there only to show diversity and prove that Harvard has indeed become a welcoming institution for all kinds of people...
...qualified to handle his weapon, meaning he can snap-shoot a quarter-inch hole in a soccer ball at 100 yards. They must make sure the right equipment is shipped--from helicopters shrink-wrapped in plastic to protect them from the salt air on the ships heading out of Savannah, to flyswatters (a dozen for every 150 men, same for mousetraps...
...responding to the column by Zachary S. Podolsky ’04 (“Quit the Race-Baiting, Kuumba,” Jan. 6), I will not discuss the op-ed by Savannah J. Frierson ’05 (“On Display With Kuumba,” Nov. 12). Podolsky’s initial assumptions about her piece—that it was a personal response which stood independent of any larger organizational attitudes—were entirely correct. Therefore, I want to focus solely on the issue concerning Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux...