Word: tented
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...committee recommended maintaining the same tailgate location at Beren tennis courts but with more signs directing students. Other concerns included the early closing of the food tent provided by the Harvard University Dining Services...
...thinking of metonymy? Actual: A movie directed by Charlie Kaufman, written by Charlie Kaufman, about Charlie Kaufman. 3. “Milk” Sounds Like: It does a body good. Actual: Gay characters were out of the closet; now they’re out of the tent and running for the Board of Supervisors. It does a political body good! 4. “Changeling” Sounds Like: A science fiction thriller about a giant people-eating bug. Actual: Angelina Jolie makes another Oscar bid after being passed over for “A Mighty Heart...
...group of parents at Julie A. Duncan ’09’s all-girls Catholic school in Kentucky pushed for a ban on several English books containing objectionable material like child abuse and pre-marital sex. The books included “Red Tent,” “Flowers for Algernon,” and “House on Mango Street,” or “normal books that people read all the time,” as Duncan described them. “They wrote a 20-page questionnaire, and they took...
...hospitalizations will continue to trickle in through the first week in December. Evaluation of the new restrictions will occur later that month at a debriefing meeting with representatives from the College, HUPD, and University Health Services. McCoy said that, as a spectator inside the “incident tent,” the game passed without incident. The tent, located adjacent to Harvard Stadium and open throughout the game, sheltered a UHS medical team, several resident deans and proctors, and a field of cots for intoxicated students. Student perception of the restrictions’ impact was generally mixed. Veronica...
...possibly being stripped of his committee chairmanship. The general amnesty campaign, part of a promise to change the way Washington works, impressed some longtime partisans. "It's brilliant," says a senior Republican Party official. "My hat is totally off to the guy." Viewed more cynically, bringing Clinton into the tent could co-opt a potential adversary in 2012 and put a leash on her globetrotting husband, who has a propensity for foreign policy freelancing. Which raises a question: Would this move, if it happens, be just the first manifestation of that new kind of politics that Obama was promising...