Word: skips
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...With veteran status, Carlos considers himself a sage of the streets. He has picked up some wisdom along the way as well as countless intriguing stories. Over the years, he claims to have accepted fares from Harvard notables: Neil Rudenstine, Alan Dershowitz, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates and Stephen Jay Gould, and real-world gurus like George Will, a columnist for Newsweek. Carlos describes Rudenstine as "very humble, very down to earth," and Gates as "a real nice, fun guy, a Democrat." He recalls driving Gould to Logan airport, and having "a great conversation about creation versus evolution science...
...tapes, given to TIME, a voice identified as that of one of Japan's highest-ranking sumo officials says, "Match rigging is a rationale to skip training and daily practice and sacrifices the fundamental nature of sumo. And when this is out in the public, it will threaten the existence of the Japan Sumo Association." Later the official directly addresses the wrestlers: "You wrestlers have a look on your face that says, 'What's the problem? This has been around for a long time.' But at some point, we need to put an end to this." Itai's allegations...
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, the chair of Harvard's Department of Afro-American Studies, is a Yale graduate and credits the university with shaping his views on the intersection of race and society...
...type of person who closely reads every word, highlighting in 10 different colors, I don't see how you can take a full course load and still have a life," Isbell says. "If you're willing to skim--and in some cases skip--the reading, it's manageable...
...Tony and other people threatened and harassed, and people need a place to come and talk about that." Studies show that gay and lesbian youth are seven times as likely as straight kids to be threatened or injured by a weapon at school and five times as likely to skip school because they feel unsafe...