Word: semis
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...head who looks like ancient turtle-met with a group of battalion commanders in the ruins of a medical center that had been blasted, by someone, several years earlier. Situation maps were leaned against a white ceramic tile wall; the officers sat in campaign chairs, hunched in a tight semi-circle; bottles of cold water were passed around...
...book Pearl's wife Mariane wrote about the huge and increasing desperate attempt to find Pearl before his kidnappers assassinated him, is a conscientious and in many respects admirable account of this effort. Directed by Michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo, A Cock and Bull Story) in the semi-documentary manner he favors - hand-held cameras, lightly rehearsed staging, considerable improvised dialogue - it has great immediacy and it tells a complex story very coherently. A bewildering number of institutions - Pakistani security forces, the American consulate in Karachi, Pearl's newspaper, even the FBI - turned the Pearl home into a command center...
...busyness or nonchalance, Kirshner and Loader, who were on sabbatical this year, have always given a distinct impression of caring little for Quincy’s students and staff. Master-student interactions were mostly limited to monthly open houses, to which students were invited but never quite welcomed, and semi-annual formals...
...paying for an item. The situation was settled with the manager, and the person was run for outstanding warrants with positive result and placed under arrest. Nahom Getaneh, 17, of Boston, was placed under arrest.May 28:12:21 a.m.: Officers were dispatched to the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. They responded to a report of loud noises coming from the building and urged the occupants to quiet down.May 30: 2:19 a.m.: HUPD was dispatched to Mt. Auburn Street, arrived and spoke with...
...college, Henson, the daughter of “The Muppets” creator Jim Henson, achieved fame as the first female president of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. She went on to become one of Hollywood’s biggest and youngest movie moguls, the president of Columbia Pictures in 1993, a producer for her own firm, a former member of the University’s second-highest governing board, and one of the chief executives of her family’s business...