Word: semis
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...tangible efforts the country has made to pay for its sins. For a start, the Japanese government in 1999 gave $414 million in development aid directly to China?far more than China receives from any other country. And in 1995, Japan set up the Asian Women's Fund, a semi-private charity to collect money for women forced into sexual slavery by the military. Still, even the fund's director, Mizuho Matsuda, remains unimpressed. "Japan has not done enough," she complains, "although it's incorrect to say Japan has done nothing...
...Henman, that most English of tennis players, is lionized for being Wimbledon’s perpetual semi-finalist. That he has never reached the final—for goodness sake, this year he was even outperformed by David Nalbandian who, before the tournament, was known to no one except (perhaps) his mother—is viewed as irrelevant. Damn it, he’s English and his father has an impressive range of blue blazers. Which is what tennis is about after...
...Show,” a variety show organized by campus semi-celebs B.J. Avarell and B.J. Novak, is hosted by national semi-celeb and former “Full House” star Bob Saget. The show features numerous genitalia jokes, the voice of Aladdin, the Disney cartoon character, and tomfoolery the likes of which haven’t been seen in these parts since the previous year’s “BJ Show...
...want to put your efforts where they’re most needed, and that’s often internationally,” Yasin says. “[But] I want to live a semi-normal life. We’ll see how it all works...
While others such as 2000 Class Day speaker Conan C. O’Brien ’85 cut their teeth writing for the Harvard Lampoon, Franken was rejected from the semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...