Word: shapely
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...meal and then goes back to work at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Osoblaha, a tiny town in the northeastern corner of the Czech Republic. Armed with a flashlight, he crouches in front of one of the 300 or so tombstones, transcribes its inscription and makes notes on the shape and condition of the stone. Haidler, 43, a part-Jewish theater-troupe director from Ústí nad Labem, a post-industrial city in the north of the country, has been documenting tombstones around the country since 1999 in an attempt to preserve what is in a sense the last...
...Annapolis or a Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship. Or, perhaps like me, at 18 the thought of joining the military seemed about as likely as joining the circus. If I had been told during my first year at Harvard that soon after graduation I would be getting whipped into shape by a Marine Drill Instructor at the Navy’s Officer Candidate School, I would have responded that the draft must have been reinstated...
...going to be going out to the clubs to celebrate,” he said. “But then I realized that’s probably the best way to deal with it—we’re alive and in pretty good shape, and let’s celebrate it while we’re here...
...economy-boosting package, the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has done nothing substantive to alleviate the problem. Just last week, the Financial Services Agency backpedaled on needed reforms by promising to maintain guarantees on certain bank deposits. Reformers argue that lifting blanket guarantees would force weak banks to shape up or close...
...that flame would rather not lose federal funding than fight for their core belief. After Sept. 11, Harvard missed an historic opportunity to proclaim a shift in its attitude towards ROTC and temper its anti-military animus. Instead, Harvard is now reacting to events rather than helping to shape opinion and stake out a leadership position. It is shameful that Harvard could not proclaim a more noble reason to invite military recruiters back to the Law School...