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...true you are a bad speller? -Andy Chu, Washington I'm terrible! [Laughs.] I'm better than when I started, but thank God for spell-check...
...Crimson upset Johns Hopkins in the first round to move into the semifinals against No. 11 St. Francis. Although Harvard ended the weekend on a losing note, falling to St. Francis in the semifinals and George Washington in the third-place game, the results of the weekend spell future success for the Crimson’s younger players.“We’re playing tougher opponents now—this is the way the program is going now,” sophomore Spencer Livingston said. “[A top-four finish] is what we?...
...child's imagination. "By the nature of the beast, children are more creative than we are," Chambers says. "So they will make the connections and do it enthusiastically." The Robert Mellors School proves that when education is packaged to encourage those connections, it can cast a powerful spell - just like the Ollivander wand favored by Harry Potter...
...sunlight thin, we rely on the revelry of carnival and Mardi Gras to carry us over until spring and rebirth. Then come the patriotic plumes, of Memorial Day and Flag Day and July 4 (not to mention Cinco de Mayo, Bastille Day and Samoan Independence Day) before a long spell when the holidays themselves go on holiday. August is the rare month with no shared celebration in it, when we gasp along for weeks on end without collective permission to overspend, overeat and overindulge...
...that DST is beneficial because it “adds” more daylight in the evening hours, when people are better able to take advantage of the sun’s rays. “Under the most favorable circumstances, there then remains only a brief spell of declining daylight in which to spend the short period of leisure at our disposal,” Willet wrote. “If some of the hours of wasted sunlight could be withdrawn from the beginning and added to the end of the day, how many advantages would be gained...