Word: spartan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...take it in the Ivy League,” senior Laura Mahon said.After sweeping the Hornets, 3-0, on Friday, the Crimson lost only one game to the Terriers en route to a 3-1 match victory. In the final match against the Spartans, Harvard fell short, losing the match 3-1.With its win over the Crimson, Michigan State claimed the Harvard Invitational title, having won all four of its weekend matches.The all-tournament team included a pair of Harvard hitters, Mahon and junior Kathryn McKinley, both of whom posted double-doubles in the weekend’s play. Boston College?...
Exposed wires dangle from the ceiling in the dusty hallway outside the medical center at the military base on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Conditions on the base are spartan and, amid mounting casualty rates, some of the young British soldiers serving there as part of the NATO-led mission complain their work isn't properly appreciated back home. They expressed these concerns during a July visit by the U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband and, within the past two months, they have been able to make their case to a stream...
...After years of holding down a day job as a graphic designer, Hisashi Tenmyouya's paintings now fetch $50,000 or more. Unlike Matsui or Kumi Machida, who graduated from Tama Art University, Tenmyouya is self-taught, and he brings an autodidact's passion to his work. At his spartan studio on the northeastern outskirts of Tokyo, he kneels placidly on the floor, surrounded by works in progress, many of them featuring the stylized samurai that have become his trademark. He feels a kinship to their uncompromising independence. "[Famed samurai] Musashi Miyamoto learned his skill on his own, and beat...
...Kahika politely serves coffee in the Hastings pad, a spartan-looking house down a cul-de-sac that is surrounded by a sturdy fence. "Most of our guys have got jobs here," he says. "Only about two or three are in jail." It's mid-morning and younger members in red tracksuits are waking up and tidying the pad. The cupboards are missing their doors, but the kitchen is spotless...
...graphics of the era are as hot as they've ever been. And in buildings by such marquee names as Richard Meier and Jean Nouvel, austere glass and steel have even regained cachet for homes, at least in the world of high-end condo construction. At the sleek but spartan Manhattan condo towers designed by Meier and completed in 2002, no less a traditionalist than Martha Stewart was among the first in line to buy space...