Word: sparely
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...White Sox? Check, a World Series title in 2005, their first since 1917. The Red Sox? C'mon, didn't you see one of the 129 tomes touting that 2004 title, their first in 86 years? (And they won again last October, so greater Bostonians, please spare us any more soppy, self-pitying salutes to Pesky, Yaz and Teddy Ballgame.) As another October arrives, there's only one baseball team yet to shed its truly historic loser label. Sure, the Cleveland Indians have been championship-starved since 1948. But when you haven't won a title in, literally, a century...
Throughout the Harvard T station, one is now bombarded with questions that not even Harvard students typically ask: “Could you spare some DNA?” “Are 42 arms just as useful...
...massive burden on many student groups, and are often the limiting factor in determining in which activities students can participate. This additional funding not only will allow groups to engage with communities outside of Harvard, but will also serve a subsidy-like purpose in enabling undergraduates without money to spare to travel with their student groups...
...addict who divides his time between his job as an “historical interpreter” at a colonial village, serving as a sponsor at nymphomaniacs-anonymous meetings (where he leads fellow addicts astray), and being a son devoted to a mother slipping into dementia. In his spare hours, he’s also a con man scamming money from wealthy Samaritans who are fooled by his choking act. It’s not nearly as confusing as it sounds, but it is less satisfying than it could be. Palahniuk may write shock-literature, but he also...
...deliberate sophistication than any band that’s ever shred. Fanboys will no doubt note that “Death Magnetic” is Metallica’s first collaboration with Rick Rubin, the legendary producer behind Slayer and System, among others; his influence lends the album its spare, deathly tint. But even as James Hetfield’s lyrics darken, the band continues to invent itself out of its songs’ subject matter. Although Hetfield vows to kill himself in “The Day That Never Comes” (“Love?...