Word: skips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Even though the University has scheduled classes for Patriots Day today, many Harvard runners will choose to skip class and test their endurance at the Boston Marathon...
Thirty-five years and a week after Timothy G. Carlson ’71 brought his camera into an occupied University Hall, the snapshots he took there can be found in magazine archives or a skip-filled CD-ROM. Still, no number of scratches or fading decades can obscure the behind-the-scenes images of the moment the ivory tower became a battleground...
...denying the Mob's very existence. "What Mafia?" the lawyer would ask, with the righteous nonchalance of a cigarette manufacturer disclaiming any harm in his product. Breitbart, who has defended Mob suspects for more than 20 years and wore a gun holster during a recent interview, says he will skip the denial: "If they are going to bring in 15 witnesses to say Joe's a father in organized crime, why beat my head against a wall?" Breitbart's plan is to beat the feds' heads instead. "It doesn't matter if you are the boss or the barber...
...study that will cause the hearts of bald men everywhere to skip a beat, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report they have coaxed stem cells to grow new hair, at least in mice. The team hopes to do the same for human scalps but cautions that stem-cell treatments for hair loss--hold on to your hats--are at least a decade away...
Here, working with Human Nature director Michel Gondry, Kaufman wonders whether one person can be true to another, whatever obstacles pile up. On Valentine's Day 2004, Joel Barish (a wonderfully forlorn Jim Carrey) decides to skip work and--who knows why--take a train to Montauk on the frosty tip of Long Island. There he is accosted by free-spirited Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet, ornery and seductive). She lures mopey Joel into an affair, which proves to have as many abrasive spots as soft ones. Truth to tell, they're a wildly ill-suited pair. But, hey, bitter with...