Word: steeled
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...with the man I live with," he says of his home life. "Part of it is an antidote to the wildness of the imagination." Gurr says he was three-quarters of the way through writing the memoir before he realized its hidden purpose: "To put a bit of steel back into the language of ideas that have come to be seen as soft, nebulous, weak," he says, before pausing. "All the things that have been stripped out of the national conversation." Despite his fury, Gurr is free of rancor. He's hard-headed about federal Labor's chances next year...
...Brown] stepped up as a senior—[it was] a really powerful ending for her four year career.” Brown’s big day came in the midst of biting cold and rain in Hanover. The wet, nasty conditions, however, helped steel the resolve of Harvard, which was fighting to win its first road game of the season and its first in regulation time, as both of the Crimson’s previous two victories came in overtime at Jordan Field. “It was freezing cold and rainy...
...legacy issue of dioxin is 80 years old. Eighty years ago, standards were very different than those today. There were no notions of pollution. Smokestacks were everywhere. Look at the steel industry, the car industry. We had to be there to get to here--all of us as a society. There's a framework under which this can be remediated and repaired. We don't need anyone's involvement other than the people who've been trespassed on. The tort system in this country is broken when in class actions, such as the silicone-breast-implant issue, a small number...
...field is very broad. An orthopedic surgeon can spend his or her day casting babies' club feet, sewing an artery whose cross section is smaller than the dot on this i or hammering a foot long chunk of steel into someone's thigh bone with a (sterile) five pound maul - all in the name of good will toward man. Our patients generally get better and the uniquely orthopedic interaction of science and humanity makes for a great richness of experience in our everyday lives. Ask any doc - ortho is fun. And while not much of a relativist, I can imagine...
...more excited about working with the consultants,” he says. “I realized how much the VCO could help us.” DEFINITIONS OF SUCCESS“It’s easier to understand what the mission of a steel company is, but non-profits tend to be driven by a different mission,” says Anderson. Finding that mission is sometimes a difficult task.For the Brattle and WHRB, it seems that the mission is to function as a significant artistic presence within their immediate communities. Some Harvard students can see a little...