Word: tented
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...country” in its early years, the structure did not age well. Bruce G. Schoenfeld ’82, a Crimson sports editor, referred to the box as a “nemesis of sportswriters and broad-casters and, really, no better protection against chilling wind than a tent of Saran,” burned to the ground “by a well-intentioned (and reporter-funded?) arsonist.”And the fire was not a media spectacle, according to Schoenfeld today, even among those who covered College sports.Schoenfeld began covering Harvard football in the fall...
...anything they wanted to do as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Sometimes people say to me, "You're not a real Libertarian because Libertarians believe there should be no gun control." I'm not a radical Libertarian, O.K.? Every party has something of a big tent...
Sprawled in the middle of a university courtyard under a large tent, some 50 students at the hyper-competitive All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are doing what any doctor would tell them not to - starving themselves. Now on the sixth day of an indefinite hunger strike, their hand-written white T-shirts make clear their position on the government's controversial new policy to increase quotas for lower-caste students at the country's elite educational institutions: DON'T MIX POLITICS WITH MERIT; QUOTAS: THIS CURE IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE; MERIT IS MY CASTE, WHAT'S YOURS...
...ready to eat (MREs) contain Laura's favorite treat, so her staff hoards them for use whenever they have to deliver bad news. She has been impressed at how comfortable her camp has been. "Much nicer than the cesspool they have put Jim in," she notes. She shares a tent with 65 of her troops, discovering to her surprise how loudly some men snore. They all sleep in their uniforms or stripped down to T shirts; there are separate showers and latrines for men and women. For the first two weeks at Laura's Camp Victory there were no dining...
...Sitting in his Bedouin tent in Tripoli a year ago, Gaddafi clearly fancied himself a man of the future, not a revolutionary dinosaur. An avid Web surfer, he tapped a thick finger on a keyboard and stared into the glow of a flat screen computer. He likes the English news on Google but had trouble maneuvering there on the day TIME paid him a visit. Instead, he clicked on one of his Favorites, a site called Gaddafi Speaks. "You have my views on reforming the United Nations, the problems of Palestine, Korea and Turkey?s admission to the European Union...