Word: spare
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...social studies concentrator in Adams House, spends his spare time playing hide and seek with Harvard’s hidden curriculum. His column, “Miseducation,” seeks to offer a critical yet hopeful perspective on education at Harvard and beyond on alternate Thursdays...
...served as a British Army officer from 1988 to 2003. The men in the convoy applied "exactly the correct fire solutions," he says. "And when the incident was over, they dealt with their comrades and moved on." The existence of the video was kept from Ahmelman's family to spare them further distress, Crane explains. "Sometimes decisions are correct, sometimes incorrect," he says of what happened that day. "I've heard somebody suggest they should have immediately crossed the median strip and headed back to the (fortified) Green Zone. A personal security detail that did that got blown up four...
...Friday the center, a spare room in the Pentagon's basement, was humming with activity, fully staffed for handling both the Katrina recovery and preparations for Hurricane Rita, which would hit the Texas and Louisiana coast the next day. Fifteen people on each shift shared six computer workstations with a Special Forces Colonel, Jeff Pounding in charge...
...carries on a frank, two-way conversation with a fossilized vertebra at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.) His behavior grows increasingly pathological: at one point, he embarks on a bid to convince his fellow students not to buy newspapers from the homeless man in Harvard Square who sells Spare Change News...
...stripping,” “qui tam” statues, and the massive euphemism for the abortion debate, “stare decisis”—the Latin term for letting existing precedents stand. We realize the good intentions of legislators, but please spare us. For a lawyer who routinely argues before the Supreme Court, questions of amateurs are easily deflectable. Such an imperfect method shall yield nothing the nominee chooses not to reveal. An educated proposal to fix the confirmation system is beyond the scope of this editorial however...