Word: stirs
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Harvard students, accustomed to pouring their sweat and tears into papers and problem throughout the school year, tend to get a little stir-crazy working as summer interns. But after hours of photocopying and coffee runs, in-the-know interns turn to Intern Memo— an e-mail newsletter that offers everthing from career advice to after-work outing suggestions...
...escapism that leads Chris, a fortysomething traveling salesman trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage, to a street corner in north London. There, he propositions Roza, an illegal Yugoslav immigrant in her 20s, who has donned a short skirt and fur jacket merely to see what trouble she can stir. She invites him to her dingy basement apartment for coffee and starts telling him about her life as the daughter of a communist partisan. They forge a friendship, with Chris visiting Roza often to listen to her tales of the mundane (pets, first loves and summer camp) and the sensational...
...huge mobilization of students, raising our voices, coming together, and doing something on a broader scale. In the past, Harvard has really been a hotbed of activism. Harvard does have this name and the media does latch on to that. So if we’re going to stir stuff up, this is where we have a lot of leverage. If 500 Harvard kids get arrested for protesting the war, that will be on the national news, the world media. Nobody is trying to get arrested though...
Beyond simply rewarding teams, introducing a post-season tournament in the Ivies would stir up fan fervor across all eight campuses...
...potential for healing the divisions of the nation and moving us forward to a better day.” The junior Senator “points us toward what is possible to achieve if we can unite in common cause.” His very words stir us to action, to forget the sobering reality of recent experience, to believe that anything, no matter how impossible, is possible...