Word: shells
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Gingrich has long been an advocate of private philanthropy as a replacement for government social programs. Even if no laws were broken, the use of a charity for disadvantaged children as a "shell" account for political activities contributes to an image of meanspiritedness and cynicism that has damaged Gingrich's standing in public opinion polls...
...ready to go.“Every time we fixed a problem that kept us from racing another one came up,” Golden said.The man driving the trailer got lost while out of cell phone service areas, so the pair didn’t know where their shell was.They had no coach, and thus no one to attend the coaches’ meeting, and thus no one to register their team colors, which proved a problem when a race official questioned them on their colors.Despite the adversity, the team known as Schwingg was grabbing plenty of attention...
...what was going on. By the time local security forces and reinforcements from neighboring republics regained control, the city of 250,000 bore all the grim scars of urban warfare: bodies sprawled on sidewalks, in back alleys and outside apartment blocks and official buildings. Kids roamed the streets collecting shell casings. "We never thought this would happen here," says Anastasia Zaitseva, whose workplace, a hotel opposite the Federal Security Service (fsb) headquarters, was on the front line. "We always believed this tragedy would pass us by." Instead, the persistent insurgency in the North Caucasus keeps spreading - and what began...
...Harvard’s choice to focus on domestic relief efforts while ignoring graver crises elsewhere. Even with its $25.9 billion endowment, of course, Harvard can’t respond to every cataclysmic event. And it shouldn’t. Alumni donors never gave University administrators carte blanche to shell out cash whenever and wherever they see fit. Harvard’s comparative advantage is in education. Here in Cambridge, Kennedy School professors are training government officials in emergency-management techniques, and Design School students have drawn blueprints for tsunami-resistant houses. Clearly, it would not be in the global...
...field trip that year, I popped it in, and a bus filled with high-schoolers settled back to recapture their youth. While the theme song remained catchy (They’re the world’s most fearsome fighting team/They’re the heroes on the half-shell and they’re green!), we had a rude awakening soon after: the show was awful. Some other undergrads shared their own favorite cartoons from bygone years. Sophia P. Snyder ‘07 I didn’t watch T.V. – I wasn?...