Word: spiked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Marie Robinson gave $35 million to Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to ensure its students are groomed for government service. A couple years ago, the Robinsons sued Princeton - because the grad school sends only 12% of its grads into federal service. Everyone expected a spike in public service after 9/11, but it has not materialized...
...believe this dramatic spike in digital participation is, for the most part, sharpening the minds of Generation M, not dumbing them down. But it's hard to see that improvement without the right yardstick. The skills they're developing are not trivial. They're learning to analyze complex systems with many interacting variables, to master new interfaces, to find and validate information in vast databases, to build and maintain extensive social networks crossing both virtual and real-world environments, to adapt existing technology to new uses. And they're learning all this in their spare time...
...goon" line is not just a clever ad-lib on John's part. It shows that Champagne is attentive to the arcana of the Beatles' biography. In their youth they were fans of BBC Radio's The Goon Show, whose stars, including Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, all recorded comedy albums produced by George Martin. It was his connection to the Goons, not his work on jazz albums, that first endeared Martin to John and the others. Another number in the show, "Eleanor Rigby," which takes place in the wreckage of postwar Liverpool, has a cratered, post-nuclear look reminiscent...
...think it would be valuable for everyone if we were affiliated [with the HAA]. Our missions are the same,” he says.The organization, founded in 2001, currently has about 200 members, drawn from all of Harvard’s schools. Hegazy says he anticipates a membership spike in the next few years, resulting in an HAAA membership of 2,000 to 3,000.“Ethnicity is one thing that is with us our whole life, and especially for Arabs it affects us consciously everyday,” Hegazy says. In addition to outreach within the alumni...
...wounded Blanchett because of an intergovernmental debate over whether the shooting is an act of Islamic terrorism. That was one of many echoes in Cannes movies of roiling events in the world beyond the screen. Yet Cannes '06 was fairly harangue-free; there was no Michael Moore to spike the punch bowl with one of his incendiary documentaries. The most notable nonfiction political film was An Inconvenient Truth, starring Al Gore, the former U.S. Vice President and near-President. Essentially a slide show on the looming disaster of climate change, the movie is like its front man: both committed...