Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feeling slightly ridiculous as I sit on a dock that juts into an artificial lagoon and stroke a dolphin's nose with my feet. The stroking is a handshake of sorts, a way of introducing me and four other people at the Hyatt Waikoloa in Hawaii to the dolphins with whom we will be swimming. We are the latest of roughly 15,000 customers who have paid $55 for half-hour frolics with six dolphins since the Hyatt program began a year ago. The enterprise, one of four operating in the U.S., is so popular that spots have...
...Holtz's secondary skills is the ability to perform parlor magic tricks. First and foremost, he is a disciplinarian in the Vince Lombardi mold. In his first team meeting in 1985, he looked around and saw players slouching in their seats. He ordered them in no uncertain terms to sit at attention from that point on. Says senior defensive tackle Jeff Alm, who is almost 1 ft. taller and 120 lbs. heavier than Holtz: "He's not the biggest guy in the world, but he seems to possess a lot of power." Last month a furious Holtz told the team...
Three years ago, a group of women who swam regularly at the same time each day recognized the need for a safe alternative and hired a baby sitter to sit with their children off to the side of the pool. Like many small ventures that emerge at the right time, the pool sitting service was so successful, the word started circulating (erroneously) that Harvard University was providing day care at the pool. Soon, too many people came with their babies, and a second sitter was hired. As an informal service, there were a few guidelines for the sitters, and some...
...taken me a little over two years of Harvard to get to this point. What will two more years do? And what about 25? Will I eventually turn into one of those gray-haired, Harvard-tie-wearing alumni who sit in the front row and munch caviar while cheering on the old alma mater every year...
SECTIONS are even worse. While I sit through lecture with a vague feeling of malaise, the weekly one and a half hour section completely unnerves me. Sections vary greatly in tone and quality, to be sure, with more than 40 offered every week, but as a minority student in a class discussing "white guilt," I am becoming more disturbed as the semester progresses. It is not an enjoyable or comfortable situation...