Word: somewhat
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...more of the team. The Invitational finished out the Crimson’s season, which was not without dramatic moments. A first-ever win at the Yale tournament after 33 years certainly was the high point. A fourth-place finish at the long-awaited Ivy Championships left the team somewhat disappointed. However, Harvard will lose no golfers to graduation, as no seniors played for the team this year. “Obviously it was a step up from last year and from the fall,” Shuman said. “We won Yale and that?...
...inappropriate. Slang words abound, but ‘tapping it,’ ‘touching it,’ or ‘spanking it’ (‘it’, of course, being ‘that ass’) are too informal and somewhat gender specific. The best phrase I used was, ‘Have you two ever hit it?’ Linguistically ‘hitting it’ allows a simple yes or no answer...
...Jeon will remain president and chief executive of the new Partners-owned organization. Pieper said yesterday that he thought the transfer to Partners would help expand HMI’s reach. “I think that with the additional clinical capacities of Partners HealthCare, PHMI would have a somewhat broader and deeper capability than HMI had,” Pieper said. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...actually just a mudblood - a muggle, not a wizard, because my muggle mother had converted to Reform Judaism, not Orthodox. But I shouldn't despair, he says. There are good muggles and bad muggles, just as there are good and bad wizards. I could still play a (somewhat diminished) role in fighting evil...
...couple of days later, I called Rabbi Dr. Chaim Pollock, Dean of Foreign Students at the Michlalah Jerusalem College, whom I had read had also used the Harry Potter analogy. He seemed somewhat embarrassed that I was asking him about the topic. "Harry Potter is fiction," he said. He had never suggested that it spoke to the Jewish experience specifically. He had just defended its emphasis on good and evil back when a lot of religious leaders were denouncing the books as occult. "The following, I think I can tell you," he said, warming slightly to the topic. "Rowling...