Word: silver
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...place in the Ivy Championships two weeks ago. The highlights of the weekend came from the first place ties in the women’s sabre and the men’s epee events. The male epeeists drew inspiration from senior All-Ivy selection Teddy Sherrill, who earned a silver medal in the event. In a thrilling bout with Princeton’s Graham Wicas, Sherrill lost by the slimmest of margins, 5-4. The Tiger win gave Princeton a share of the overall men’s epee victory. Sophomore Misha Goldfeder, also an All-Ivy performer...
...feeble eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (an ironic reference to a nearby district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink or red. Glasses are for seeing, not for being seen. Shoes are comfortable and underwear is long. Even when the weather is windy and bitterly cold, busloads of seniors swarm the main street, called Jizo-dori, to pray for good health at two popular temples, to shop...
...ever wish you'd finished college? -Rafi Katz, Silver Spring, MD.I'm just not that type of person. As soon as I got out of the womb I was ready to do this. Then there's other times-I'm not really high-tech computer-savvy, and there's some things that I do have weaknesses with. I don't know if school would have made that better for me. I'm cool with the way I've turned...
...also a growing force in copper, manganese, bauxite, precious metals, aluminum, coal, steel and energy. Its stock price has more than doubled in the past year, to nearly $33, and the company's market value is about $160 billion, 16 times what it was in 1997. Douglas B. Silver, an industry veteran and CEO of Colorado-based International Royalty Corp., calls Vale "the most effective giant mining company in the world," not just for its size but also for its skill at operating in difficult emerging markets. Along the way, Vale has built what could be a model for other...
...Have you ever written for the silver screen? Is it something you want to explore further? CME: I have written some, but I haven’t had anything produced yet. I have done a lot of script readings but my background is more strongly in drama. [...] It is a form I am really fascinated by and it shares so many qualities with playwriting. Each form helps me to think in the other one. The tools you need for dramatic writing cross over between the media, but the actual media is very different. You have to think in images...