Word: spotted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Oddly, the dominating performances by Portugal, Holland, Spain and Germany mean there are plenty of scraps left over for the runner-up spots and a place in the knockout round. And likely, a chance to be knocked out. Italy must find a way past Romania - certainly possible - and then play an out-of-form France for the second spot in Group C. Switzerland needs to beat Turkey to stay alive in Group A and possibly overtake the Czechs, who face Portugal. The Russians, who threatened the Spanish on a number of occasions, face a stubborn Greece and a rejuvenated Sweden...
...shadow of Byzantine battlements, a gaggle of giggling girls runs back and forth among the dilapidated houses, stopping occasionally to expertly shimmy their hips and twirl their wrists. They're chased by several whooping boys, who inevitably catch them and haul them off to "jail," a spot by a wall. The gypsy children of Istanbul's impoverished Sulukule neighborhood - home to the world's oldest Roma community - call this game Cops and Bellydancers, a homespun version of Cops and Robbers amended to reflect their own experience of being born into a life of dancing and dodging the police...
...Byzantine era that the ancestors of the Roma kids of Sulukule first settled on this particular spot of land, close to the Golden Horn and just outside 5th century city walls of old Constantinople. The earliest record of the community, from about 1050 AD, refers to a group of people, believed to have come from India (where, indeed, most historians believe the Roma originated) who camped in black tents outside the city walls. After the Ottomans conquered Constantinople, the community was granted offical permission by Sultan Mehmet II to make their homes on what is now Sulukule...
...that date, an editorial entitled “Wake Up and Think” formulated this reaction to a suggestion that seniors rather than “faculty men” advise freshmen: “If the University is to make any real progress in cleaning the grimy spot of Freshman Advising from its escutcheon, something more better than seniors, who are interested in their own problems [and] out of touch with the Yard … will have to be found...
...College is now five terms into the most recent attempt to improve things. Are there reasons to be hopeful? Are things getting better? Have we finally at least begun to clean the grimy spot of not only freshman but of all advising from our collective escutcheon? Or are we just deluding ourselves...