Word: stoking
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Tracy E. Nowski ’07, a CUE member, said potential plans to stoke student participation for the CUE guide were “never raised in official CUE meetings...
...Martin Scorsese, who won the Best Director Globe for The Departed, but he's been disappointed so often before - five Oscar nominations without winning, and not even a nod for Taxi Driver or Casino - that it might be imprudent for Scorsese to stoke his hopes one more time. It'll be even creepier that, this time, he's the favorite...
...would include most Indians.” Many anthropologists and biologists believe that those who live in present day India and Pakistan are genetically Caucasian, having emigrated from Western Eurasia centuries ago. “Any other usage would reveal the true purpose of this scholarship, which is to stoke racial tensions,” Warrier added. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
...seated and the entrée is coming, you’re hitting the hardest part of the meal: no food to distract you, and you’re probably out of pleasantries and basic getting-to-know-you chit chat. Now’s the time to stoke your prof’s ego and score major brownie points, so keep the questions coming on your end. Everyone loves to talk about themselves, and professors are no exception. Good places to start are with basic, less personal areas, like their field of study and education—maybe you?...
...strong Baathist component. U.S. military intelligence estimates that upwards of 30% of Sadr's militia leaders are former members of Saddam's armed forces. There is communication, and occasionally collaboration, between these Sunni and Shi'ite Baathists. In the spring of 2004, elements of the Sadr organization helped stoke the Fallujah rebellion. The question is, Can a military leader be found--preferably a Shi'ite who served honorably in Saddam's army--who can command the loyalty of all these groups? How many of those who served in Saddam's army can be recruited into an expanded and reorganized Iraqi...