Word: sparking
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...inexperience of the Harvard women’s basketball team. And after that record eighth consecutive loss, it was obvious the Crimson needed support from someone—anyone. Since Ivy play began in January, much of that offensive help has come from a freshman squad that provided the spark needed to revitalize a reeling Harvard team. After some maturing and greater experience, the group of freshmen—guard Niki Finelli, forward Emma Moretzsohn, guard Emily Tay, and forward Katie Rollins—brought talent and capability beyond their years to a team less than six months removed from...
...auditions. “Okay, I want to get it down to 25 minutes flat,” he says.Hanley mouths the words of the actors’ songs, staring intently at them, trying to observe every detail in the hopes that within some actor might lie the particular spark of a Roxie or a Billy. One of the things that makes the staff so weary is the blinding monotony of the same audition pieces being read again and again. “We’ve been hearing it for-EVER!” says one choreographer about...
...beirut tournaments in Leverett, or parties at any of the final clubs that line Mount Auburn Street. With an inbox of party invitations, 86 Harvard facebook friends, and a serious Harvard relationship under her belt, she has found a niche here that is so comfortable that it could even spark envy among actual Harvard students...
...senior editor at Avon Books, which publishes Teresa Medeiros' popular vampire novels. "They have been alive for 600 years. They've experienced everything. Then all of a sudden they meet this great heroine, who basically is a breath of fresh air. Falling in love, trying to find that spark again in their lives--that is a great romantic fantasy." And the biting part? "They do suck blood, but it's a very erotic process...
...hypocritical for these Muslim nations to expect European nations to respect their religious beliefs and simultaneously punish those nations for exercising their most central freedom of speech. Muslim newspapers routinely criticize and offend Jews and Christians in both Israel and America; unlike Jyllands-Posten, which ran the cartoon to spark discussion about self-censorship of Islam, these newspapers often print their anti-Semitic material out of sheer anti-Semitism. This entire debacle highlights the problems that arise when a movement, bound together by a dogmatic faith, faces the seeming horror of a pluralistic democracy in which everyone has the right...