Word: tented
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...council also approved $1,425 to rent a tent and a power generator for its sound system this year's Yalegate. The Yale gate, open to all Harvard undergraduates, will include a barbecue, with food provided by the Yale Dining Services, and music...
Hanging in Nelson Mandela's secretary's office was a photograph of the South African president posing in front of a tent with a grinning Muammar el-Qaddafi at some location in Libya. Pointing to the picture, I said somewhat apologetically, "I've got to be honest, that's the one thing about the man that I think is unfortunate...
...State Dinner itself generated a small controversy when the Chinese rejected the White House's proposal to hold the dinner in a heated tent, with hardwood floors, on the South Lawn of the White House. The Chinese insisted on the more formal elegance of the East Room of the White House interior. The White House consequently had to curtail its guest list...
...crowded exchange floor; the right movie can provide sanctuary ? and understanding. Go back home. Go back to Trading Places. All the answers to market turmoil are there, from whimsical millionaires to crop reports to the mysterious Clarence Beeks. And it's got everybody under one zany '80s tent: Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. Denholm Elliot. Jamie Lee Curtis' breasts. Paul Gleason, the principal from The Breakfast Club. Even an Al Franken cameo, as a jaded gorilla handler (if there is such a thing...
Proponents say these seminars carry the force of revelation. Attendees have been known to stand and cheer like converts at a tent meeting. But critics, careful always to applaud Efficacy's central objective of raising expectations, wonder whether the $1 million Baltimore spent on the program--equivalent to the starting salaries of 40 teachers--was money wisely used. "It's an example of what is wrong with urban education," says the Abell Foundation's Embry. "It was put in without any evidence of its working--without any evidence even expected...