Word: slenderly
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Gomes, originally from Plymouth and the former assistant director of the Man and Woman of the Year Awards, portrayed flamboyant characters in several campus plays. In Troilus and Cressida he, in leather pants and bare chest, dry-humped a slender blond man. He was active in gay social life at Harvard and Boston and has told numerous friends that his uncle was Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, though the two are not relatives...
...identity has become painfully fractured...Zionism has been a success, Segev argues, and its time is past. But, he admits sadly, 'Palestinian terrorism seems to push Israelis back into the Zionist womb.' Indeed, this may not be the best time for Segev to receive a fair hearing, but this slender book will be indispensable to anyone trying to understand current events in Israel and the Middle East...
...When I go to MIT, there is always this sense that I am at home, this is where I belong,” Pejkovic says as she rests her slender hands on a Slavic-language architecture magazine. “The people in my studio—those people I work with everyday—they really know me the best. I’m not always sure though that I am really missing out on something that is found at Harvard. Besides my friends in Folk and Myth, I’ve never really heard of anyone feeling...
...stake is a $60 billion worldwide market for hardware alone. That market includes the servers themselves, which can be as bulky as an IBM mainframe or as slender as a cigarette carton, as well as storage devices. All this iron runs on a variety of software: operating systems and protocols from Unix to Linux and, increasingly, Windows. There are battles over whose protocols are open to adaptation (guess where Windows stands?) and whether there ought to be more standardization. But those conflicts are being resolved by a vast new parallel business called Web services, which encompasses the software and technical...
...newly diminished body, his slender arms and gaunt cheeks belie his exuberance. He doesn't look like he has been eating much. This gentle incarceration in the Veteran's Hospital has reduced even his hunger. It is as if his girth has shrunk to fit his confinement. His aching knees give him the peg-legged gait of an ageing cowboy who has been riding too long. He looks out at the world through bloodshot eyes...