Word: sprung
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...courtyard, somewhere in the maze of Beijing's fast-vanishing hutongs, or alleyways. For 60 years, master dressmaker Cao Senlin, tel: (86-10) 6526 4515, has been producing the slinky silk dresses known as cheongsam. And although you could get these at one of the modern tailors that have sprung up in the capital, you would be missing out on a historic opportunity if you were to bypass the 78-year-old's tiny, 150-square-foot atelier...
Regardless of the rationale, Gross has always insisted that the curricular review—the most expansive in 25 years—was the top priority of his deanship. He could not have anticipated many of the other pressing concerns that have sprung up this year...
...defense contractor in Kuwait of a plane filled with coffins. The cargo worker, Tami Silicio, was promptly fired. Then Russ Kick of Tucson, Ariz., put 361 Dover photos (all from the past year, including images of the coffins of the shuttle Columbia crew) on his site, www.thememoryhole.org--having sprung them from the Air Force through a Freedom of Information Act request. But that was "apparently just a mistake," says a senior Pentagon official. "We don't want the remains of our service members, who have made the ultimate sacrifice, to be the subject of any kind of attention that...
...just as March has brought warmer weather to Cambridge, spring has undoubtedly sprung brightly for Harvard athletics. To begin with, over the weekend, senior wrestler Jesse Jantzen capped his remarkable Harvard career with a national championship in the 149-lb. weight category, just the second in Harvard history and the first since 1938. In addition, Jantzen was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler in the NCAA Tournament, finishing his amazing season with a record...
Birnbaum, who is a special adviser to BC President William P. Leahy, said the drive to cultivate traditions sprung from the administration. He said the college plans to encourage students to help develop these traditions through publicity—banners, fliers and a website for the task force...