Word: slights
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...twinkles in the bathroom light, almost smiling. I frown. When I hear a visitor give a startled shout, I have to tell her, it’s not that we’re disgusting frat boys, unable to clean up after ourselves. No, in fact, the opposite. That slight stench coming from the toilet bowl says we care. It is the smell of a cleaner planet.Now that is an inconvenient truth.Samuel P. Jacobs ’09, a Crimson news writer, is a history concentrator in Adams House...
...first U.S.-Europe Aquos line was revealed this summer: a bold, shiny piano-black finish with sharp corners and the slight allure of a curve at the bottom, partially exposing the speakers. The Japanese model is matte silver with softer edges. The team's job doesn't end there. Sharp's designers are forecasting not just design trends for the next line but also LCD-production capacity, panel size and availability. "All this fuss over just a TV? For now, perhaps just a TV. But not for long," says Saeki. For the team that made television beautiful, the picture...
...architect responsible for the first piece of Harvard’s new campus revealed his philosophy for green design to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences last night—and how it will extend to his designs for Allston. With a slight staccato lilt that hints at his German origins, architect Stefan Behnisch, known for his environmentally-sound designs, explained that for him sustainability does not simply refer to numerical measures of energy consumption. “It’s more than that. It has a qualitative aspect,” he said...
...There weren't too many notes for Steinmeier to miss, however. Supported by Muhabbet and seven background singers, Steinmeier and Kouchner merely had to repeat the word Deutschland (Germany) over and over again, with a slight variation at the end where the word for Kouchner's sake - whose French accent added some extra exotic charm to the song - was substituted with Frankreich (France...
...However, Molina's slight edge in some polls - Colom actually has his own small lead in other surveys - is based on voters' concerns over present-day violence. Crime has soared in the country of 13 million since the signing of the 1996 peace agreements between leftist guerrillas and the government - close to 6,000 people were murdered last year alone. Most of the killings are blamed on violent youth gangs known as maras, or on turf battles between powerful drug cartels. And that violence has seeped into the election, with over 50 candidates and party activists killed since campaigning began...