Word: sentimentals
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...lakeshore. After every sorghum harvest they draw the water in buckets and mix it with grain and hops to make pungent beer. "Our life depends on the lake," says Father Meseret Moges, 53, a priest who has lived in the monastery on the island for almost three decades. That sentiment is shared by the millions of people who live along the 6,695 km of the world's longest river. From its origins in Ethiopia and in the rolling green hills around Lake Victoria in central Africa, the Nile and its many tributaries loop through 10 countries across half...
...more dated architecture of the Cambridge Savings Bank façade. “It looked like something that had been stuck there in the 80s and didn’t quite fit,” he said. Ivo I. Parashkevov ’06 expressed the same sentiment: “It doesn’t fit, [but] modernity never fits in.” According to Jeri Foutter, a CSB representative, the new clock uses LED technology and has a lower energy consumption level than the old one, which adorned the building for six years. Foutter wrote...
...many of Gross’s senior staff dispute that sentiment...
...that bigger is not always better. Deeply entrenched in campus bureaucracy, the UC’s size hinders its ability to be effective. Harvard’s UC is in desperate need of a good diet—particularly with social programming now relegated outside its purview. Fortunately, a sentiment of needed reform seems to be shared by UC President John S. Haddock ’07 and Vice-President Annie R. Riley ’07. Last week, the UC began discussing possibilities for organizational restructuring of its three main committees—the Campus Life Committee...
...active duty roster from one to two,” Gordon added, referring to the number of Pulitzer winners now in his department. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th anniversary University professor, whose “Midwife’s Tale” won a Pulitzer in 1991, expressed a similar sentiment.“This is a wonderful day for the Harvard History Department and for two terrific colleagues,” Ulrich wrote in an e-mail. “I can tell you from experience that the competition is fierce and the decisions difficult.” Ulrich...