Word: silver
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...When you come right down to it and if you stand and ask this Faculty to do something and they believe it is in the best of interests of Harvard...they will do it, they really will do it,” said Rudenstine, who sported silver cufflinks and a red-and-black checkered tie.The former president spoke in the same ornate hall in which, three months ago, the drawn-out battle between outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers and the Faculty came to a head. The long shadow of that imbroglio was in subtle evidence at the ceremony.Before pulling...
...ahead of where we thought he would be,” Murphy said. “We didn’t go into the spring anticipating he would be working with the first team, but that’s the way it worked out, and I think the silver lining is that he’s really prepared himself to compete for the job next year.”The Harvard defense had constant pressure in the backfield all day long, notching nine sacks on the afternoon. Freshman Brenton Bryant had three and freshman Peter Ajayi earned two against...
...Chicago, there are lots of sour faces as passengers step off the South Shore Line's cramped 7:35 into Chicago's Randolph Street station from nearby Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind. The 90-minute trip, along the electric-powered silver train that in normal years carries about 13,000 passengers a day in relative comfort, has seen daily ridership spike to over 17,000 at points in recent months. What was once a leisurely, relatively pleasant way to start off and end the workday has become an exercise in elbow wrestling...
...Stars Living in an age of celebrity, we’ve come to take crossover attempts for granted. We’re willing to look the other way while Lindsay Lohan records a solo album; we’ll forgive Jessica Simpson for taking a turn on the silver screen. But there are limits to our tolerance. There are rules specifying who can move between film and tape, and who can’t. Actresses? Sure. Athletes? Maybe. Comedians? No way. Juana Molina is—or was—just that: a comedienne, famous in her native Buenos Aires...
...northern Ethiopia gather to bless an urn of water scooped from the lake that surrounds them. They pray over the water for three days and ask God to sanctify it in the name of Jesus. Then, in a small stone alcove, the head monk pours the water over a silver cross, its detailed engravings worn almost smooth with centuries of polishing, and onto the heads of believers who come in their dozens to be baptized. For the rest of the year the waters of Lake Tana, the eastern source of the Nile, are important to the holy men for more...