Word: seconder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...both students and staff for $110, 20 percent of the $539 market price. According to Associate Dean Robert G. Doyle, free access to Rosetta Stone had not previously been available to staff because funding only covered students. The LRC had been willing to pay full price for the second year of subscription for student access, but because of the 15 percent FAS-wide budget cut, the service had to be terminated. Of the 50 discounted subscriptions purchased so far, three have been purchased by students. Doyle said that if too few memberships are purchased, the program will have...
...Improved Brain Break® began at Harvard this week, and FlyBy couldn’t wait to try it out. The thought of new, nutritious options to end our second-to-last day of shopping was irresistible—well, at least, until we got there...
...songs—fairly typical for singer-songwriters—becomes distinctive through his unusually syncopated rhythms and complex, bluesy chords. The title track is the most obvious example of this; its intro is marked by an emphasis on the off-beat. The drums, entering in the in the second verse, match the syncopation of the acoustic guitar perfectly, as the electric guitar pronounces the off-beats. A piano nonchalantly doodles a jazz riff. On top of all this is a string quartet that serves to double the melody and also support it with fugal harmonies. All of these elements...
Lisa Borders, the candidate second to Norwood in most polls, complains that attempts to inject race into the campaign obscures her claim that Norwood is the least-qualified candidate. Borders heads the city council, and was also elected citywide. State Sen. Kasim Reed told a breakfast meeting of black ministers, "One Atlanta is a strong Atlanta. Two Atlantas is not Atlanta at all." Attorney Jesse Spikes also deplored the injection of race into the campaign. A second white candidate, political novice Kyle Keyser, has not shown up in polling...
...flights for the World Cup. (It's at least a 15-hour hop from the U.S.) Cohen cautions that travel to Africa isn't like anything else and that World Cup tourists should organize early and deal with reputable agents. Tickets are available through FIFA's second phase of sales, which runs until Nov. 16. U.S. Soccer's Neil Buethe says FIFA is allotting 12% of each stadium's seats to participating teams, and once the American team has qualified, fans should check ussoccer.com for more information. The next phase of ticket sales begins on Dec. 5, the day after...