Word: stones
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Next Tuesday, the full Faculty will meet to discuss the Faculty Council's recommendations for how to enhance the foreign-language requirements and reduce the number of required courses. To that end, we would like to propose a plan that will, proverbially speaking, kill two birds with one stone: increase the satisfactory score for fulfilling the language requirement and count one year of foreign-language study, after which students are supposed to be able to engage in basic communication, reading and writing, toward Foreign Cultures Core credit...
...jacket and a suitcase but had to leave behind most of his books and letters. Meanwhile, security officers picked up Wei's closest relatives--his father, stepmother, elder sister, younger brother and a niece--and drove them to a People's Liberation Army border guards' hostel that was a stone's throw from Beijing International Airport...
Damon began making his lofty ambitions clear as early as 1993, when, after small but memorable performances in the 1992 film School Ties and 1993's Geronimo: An American Legend, he was offered a part in the Sharon Stone movie The Quick and the Dead--a highly coveted job for an actor still sleeping on a friend's couch. But Damon didn't like the script and wanted to pass. "You know what I did last night? I watched Bullitt," he remembers telling his agents. "Robert Duvall drives a cab in that movie, and he has, like, four lines...
When the Army Times published a report six months ago on the increased number of waivers granted to otherwise ineligible people to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, the story sank like a stone. Perhaps that's because it didn't have a p.r. campaign behind it like the one orchestrated last week by Insight magazine, owned by the conservative Washington Times newspaper...
...Harvard Street resident reported that sometime between 5:30 and 8 p.m. on Nov. 21 an unknown person broke a small stone statue that was located outside her home. The statue was valued...