Word: spikeness
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...action, emerging as one of the most prominent figures in favor of a reevaluation of post-9/11 student visa policy. He has also proven willing to voice his own beliefs even when they are less popular within the Harvard community. In 2002, Summers called attention to an apparent spike in anti-Semitism on college campuses, and a slew of international coverage followed...
Daniel Libeskind is all smiles. The again, when is he not? Even during the worst parts of the past two years, when his master plan for the World Trade Center site was being squeezed and adulterated, when the vivid spike that was his design for its centerpiece Freedom Tower was being reworked by other hands, Libeskind kept up a pretty chipper demeanor in public. It's only when you leaf through his memoir Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture, in which the bitterness seeps through and he takes swipes at everyone who tried to push him aside...
Antony Chow ’06, assistant manager of The Harvard Shop, a Harvard paraphernalia store run by Harvard Student Agencies, said that while in-store traffic has remained the same as previous years, there has been a recent spike in web orders. According to Chow, Harvard baseball caps with an “H” embroidered on the front have been one of the most popular holiday gifts...
...foremost reason for the switch is that Jingle Bells rings the register. Most stations that change to an all-Christmas format see a spike in ratings. Advertisers flock to these frequencies, betting that holiday songs remind listeners that the season is all about giving--that is, shopping. Nor are all-Christmas formats a gimmick used only by struggling stations; even top stations like New York's WPLJ, whose Top 40 playlist draws a hip audience, have turned to Bing Crosby full time this season...
...Sauron, a creature with really scary teeth, rides out to tell Aragorn that Frodo has been killed. Jackson (who can be glimpsed playing a pirate) also solves the riddle of the "wizard kebab"--a photo, snapped on the set, of a white-robed man impaled on a huge spike. It's Saruman, fallen to his death...