Word: spare
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Quad residents including Dina B. Mishra ’06 participated in a final attempt to spare Celeris, supplementing HUDS advertisements by stuffing flyers in students’ mailboxes, offering cans of Red Bull as an inducement to visit Celeris, and even raffling a bicycle...
...novel reaches its literary high-point when Nikki returns home to Harvard, and Thomas-Graham’s prose captures the character of Cambridge. Her vivid descriptions pay homage to Café Algiers, Brattle Street Florists, and the Spare Change hawker in the center of the Square. But in reaching out to a larger audience, Thomas-Graham must unravel the intricacies of Harvardia, and at times these explanatory passages will likely prove tedious for readers in-the-know. Thomas-Graham’s caricatures of Princeton socialites are priceless, but one wonders whether the author has adopted her subjects?...
...showcases Kirk Joseph’s sousaphone as it rebounds off the bass drum crump of Terence Higgins. The menacing muted trumpet of “John The Revelator” carves a scowling path through the refried swagger of the massed horns. The Dirty Dozen has volume to spare, and at times the real challenge of the album is how to step away from the band’s masterful all out boogie and find a more thoughtful sound. When the band tries this, they run the risk of sounding disconcertingly tired and outmoded, as happens midway through...
...baby sleeps, her power has become too great to ignore. You can measure it in the numbers--254 million books sold in 61 languages in 200 countries, earning her an estimated $211 million last year alone, which have made her personal wealth greater than the Queen's. (To spare the whole forests that must be felled to print her books, her next one will be on paper that's either recycled or made from "sustainable forestry practices.") You can measure it in the growing scholarly attention--the books and academic papers and conferences from Adelaide to Ottawa that explore Harry...
Lander, 47, a math prodigy who learned genetics in his spare time, has always seemed a little larger than life. He was valedictorian of his class at brainy Stuyvesant High School in New York City, took first place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, graduated first in his class at Princeton and earned a Ph.D. in math as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. He was teaching economics at Harvard when he started reading about DNA. "Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core," he says. "This is the kind...