Word: spareness
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...last time as an undergraduate, my more cynical 20-year-old self reconsidered this pro-Harvard prejudgment. After all, there’s nothing so unique about our Square, where I regularly cut through the seating of Cambridge’s ABP so that I can avoid Spare Change Guy and the colonial-style bricks that destroy my heels. With the storefronts of my two former favorite coffee shops still vacant because of Harvard Real Estate’s prohibitively high rent, I am hard-pressed to remember what I liked about the area...
...pursued by an eager young campaign staffer with clipboard in hand, asking if you've made up your mind, if you'll caucus for his or her candidate. Be nice to these kids. For months, they've been living far from home, bunking in short-lease apartments and Iowans' spare bedrooms, running on cookies, caffeine and hope. Soon, some may lose their jobs...
...With its red-hot cinema, culinary culture and contemporary art scene, Mexico City is North America's capital of cool. But spare a thought for the colonial-era towns in the vicinity of the world's second largest metropolis. Chief among them is Puebla, two hours southeast of the capital. Set in a valley and ringed by a series of volcanoes - including the 14,636-ft (4,461-m) Malinche - Puebla was founded in 1531 along an important pre-Columbian trade route. This helped Puebla prosper during Spanish rule, resulting in one of the most elaborate and colorful town squares...
...with the U.N. Then, with a civil war raging, he caught a plane to South Africa, where he slept rough on the streets of Pretoria before becoming a boxer and earning $30 a week. In the evenings, he taught English to other Angolans, then built his own computers from spare parts and used them to set up a computer-training school. Today Cassolongo's company, Cassca Technologies, is one of the only online testing centers in Angola for international IT certification, and as the economy booms--a predicted 35% this year--demand for Cassca courses is soaring. But unlike...
...Pentagon. These were the years of Mailer at his most pyrotechnic, when he took up every kind of public intellectual battle and even ran a boisterous, quixotic and very entertaining campaign for mayor of New York City. A second Pulitzer arrived for The Executioner's Song, the spare and haunting book that came out of the execution of convicted killer Gary Gilmore. There were many other titles after that, most with moments of genius but none with the same sustained power. Nonetheless, an indispensable cultural voice was lost when Mailer died on Nov. 10. There...