Word: specializing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many Harvard students, Veterans Day meant an extra day to catch up on sleep and work. But this year, several Harvard administrators, students, and graduates marked the occasion with a special ceremony in Memorial Church, recognizing the 16 Harvard alumni—the most of any university besides the service academies—who have received the Medal of Honor...
...You’ve created sets for huge blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean II & III, Jurassic Park III, Tropic Thunder, Surrogates, and the upcoming Green Lantern. Which was your favorite experience and why? LEG: Well Pirates is special because it was my first real big one, but Tropic Thunder was really special. We got to live in Kuai for three months and I felt really involved with that process and I made some great friends. So looking back it always brings a smile to my face to think about that experience...
...momentous occasion: the 90th birthday of Liu's great-grandmother Ling Shu Zhen, the still spry and elegant matriarch of a sprawling clan. But Liu had to leave because it was time for him to go to school. This Saturday, as he does every Saturday, Liu was attending two special classes. He takes a math tutorial, and he studies English...
...leadership aren't inclined to lecture visiting Presidents, he might gently hint that Beijing is getting a little nervous about the value of the dollar - which has fallen 15% since March, in large part because of increasing fears that America's debt load is becoming unmanageable. (See TIME's special report "Obama After a Year: What's Changed, and What Hasn...
...allow women to have abortions and then won't defend them against the suffering of prostitution," says Father Hugo Valdemar, spokesman for the archdioceses of Mexico City. "They should be looking at how much the authorities themselves are involved in the mafias controlling this vice." The church has a special congregation dedicated to freeing prostitutes from the trade and helping steer them toward other jobs, Valdemar said. (See the picture gallery "Tales of the Drug Lord...