Word: spartanic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many wannabes tried out in Baghdad for Iraq Star, the new Iraqi version of American Idol. "We're trying to help ease the burden and troubles of our people," said producer Wadia Nader. The show, watched nightly by about 50% of Iraqi TV viewers, isn't flashy, with spartan sets and no studio audience. But it does have Simon Cowell's Iraqi alter ego, Muhammad Hadi, whose slams have a local accent. His dis of one hopeful's off-key song about a hummingbird: "Slaughtered bird is masculine. You kept saying it is feminine." BILAL, playing...
Former U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential aspirant Bob Graham will spend the next academic year in the Spartan confines of Mather House, serving as a fall fellow at the Institute of Politics (IOP) and, in the spring, as a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs...
...entered the glass monolith at 1818 H Street NW on the first day of my job, I realized that “the Bank” was not going to be the spartan catharsis I had anticipated. This was something I should have realized when I was arbitrarily told a month before my job started that my salary was being boosted from $8 per hour to $11.15 per hour...
...guess I expected the bank to be spartan because it’s a public institution. Financed by member countries and also by internal sources of revenue, I thought an establishment like the Bank was obligated to give every available cent to starving AIDS orphans in Africa faced with hardships I could not even conceive. But, as I’ve realized in my few weeks on the job, the Bank must be a place of luxury and embody the antithesis of poverty...
Joshua P. Rogers ’07, an economics concentrator in Lowell House, is a news editor of The Harvard Crimson. He is already saddened by the prospect of returning to Harvard food and the truly spartan Crimson newsroom...