Word: semi
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...unofficial groups such as fraternities, sororities or final clubs, McLoughlin said. In addition, student groups that are incorporated and have acquired their own not-for profit status will be encouraged but not forced to switch to HUECU. This category of not-for-profit groups includes the Harvard Lampoon (a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine), the Harvard Advocate, the Signet Society and the Harvard Glee Club...
From the day Jerry Conover started receiving Social Security checks five years ago, something gnawed at him. "I didn't need it to put food on my table," says the Denver semi-retired lawyer, 70. "And though I could've spread it amongst my 15 grandkids, they didn't really need it either." Conover had done very well as a trial lawyer, and he was working part-time as a mediator. He kept thinking there must be a better use for the money. Surely he wasn't the only person who could spare some of the dough in a monthly...
Originally enacted in 1994 for a period of 10 years, the ban prohibits the manufacture or import of military-style semi-automatic assault weapons. Between 1988 and 1991, when these guns were legal, assault weapons were eight times more likely to be used in crimes than other types of guns. By 2002, crimes attributed to assault weapons declined 66 percent since the ban’s inception. The legislation has been a success. Should the sun set on the ban on Sept. 13, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67 may have to pull...
...China's founding myth as an epic martial-arts saga. Hero was undeniably gorgeous?Zhang, a former cinematographer, couldn't make an ugly film if he were forced to shoot with a Super 8 and a penlight?but viewers found it curiously inert, neither as affecting as his earlier, semi-subversive work nor as kinetic as a full-blooded action film. If Zhang Yimou had sold out, as some suggested, the audience hadn't received much in return...
...intermission.? The soubrettes then materialized, to sing - not an Alicia Keys or Gretchen Wilson hit, but a number from ?42nd Street,? the 1981 Broadway show revived three years ago and still running, and, in deepest antiquity, the 1933 Warner Bros. musical. And not the famous title song or the semi-standards ?Shuffle Off to Buffalo? or ?You?re Getting to Be a Habit With Me,? but the uptempo flirtation tune ?Young and Healthy.? Diana, a chunky bundle of brio, sang the Dick Powell role. Allie, a slim sylph, had the Ruby Keeler-Peggy Sawyer part...