Word: silver
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Eliot House Master Lino Pertile bestowed a solid silver plate on Quincy House’s women’s intramural rowing team last night in recognition of their victory in the House rowing competition last spring...
...Book Collecting doles out money and praise to undergraduates in order to, in their words, “recognize and encourage book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard.” Fifteen Minutes is tickled by this quaint and lucrative award (first place is $1,500), and, like Noah M. Silver ’10, we yearn to see our collection on display in Lamont. And so, Visiting Committee, FM humbly presents its own collection of 15 books and publications...
...Public schools are a better deal, of course, but their price tag is growing even faster - up 6% or more. All this in a year where the cost of most everything else (as measured by the Consumer Price Index) actually fell. There is a silver lining: increased aid and tax benefits mean out-of-pocket costs for school are lower than they were five years ago, although only slightly. (Read "Germany's Ph.D. Scandal: Were Degrees Bought...
...timetable, so see bloomsburyauctions.com for dates of forthcoming events. (An auction of ephemera and propaganda from China under Mao, including the first Hebrew edition of the Little Red Book, takes place on Nov. 5.) There's a high tweed-jacket count - book-collecting seems to be the province of silver-haired gentlemen, who bid courteously and quietly. Expect shelves crammed with leather-bound books and many more in cardboard boxes on the floor. Heaven for bibliophiles...
...Thursday afternoon, when anyone watching TV news had to stop whatever they were doing and shudder. The giant, silver, Jiffy Pop balloon was climbing higher over Larimer County, Colorado, and on the ground a 10-year-old boy named Bradford Heene had told the sheriff that his little brother Falcon was inside. Falcon? Was some Greek narrative poet scripting this tragedy? Their father Richard longed to live large, a scientist, storm chaser, wife swapper, aspiring reality-TV star. He had built the vessel in the backyard; they called it his "flying saucer...