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Endowed by Thomas T. Hoopes '19, the Hoopes Prize was founded to recognize "excellence in undergraduate work" which takes the form of a long-tern project, often a senior thesis, Winners receive a $2,500 cash award...
...Love prove that Harvard professors have what it takes to get on to the bestseller lists. Meanwhile, rumors are still floating around about the seven-figure advance for economics Professor Gregory Mankiw's Macroeconomics textbook that is being used in several of Harvard's economic classes this tern...
Words flutter in his air like seabirds. Tern. There's a word. A noun. The Captain adores all nouns, proper and improper. A proper noun is a metaphor, observes the Captain, feeling very much the master of his bark. Bark! Noun- verb. Verbs are the best. Bray. Loop. Whir. In his captain's chair, the Captain sits every morning, pen in hand, happy as a clam, happier than any fisherman casting for trout. Trout! Is this the life? Captain Midlife asks unrhetorically, gazing about him with an astonishingly stupid grin...
Despite government efforts to seal off the remote villages, a few local tribespeople insisted on returning at midweek to the lands farmed by their ancestors. Their homecoming could not have been a happy one. As the Rev. Fred Tern Horn, a Dutch priest who serves in the area, described the scene, "it was as though a neutron bomb had exploded." All of the huts and buildings remained intact, and the mountains and tropical forests appeared unscathed. But almost no life stirred for miles around...
Instead of the standard horror movie romance subplot, Cameron introduces an alternative human emotion--motherhood. In their search for the alien hordes, the team discovers a little girl named Newt, played by the show-stealing Carrie Tern. At first, she is frightened to death, but gradually allows Ripley to get close to her. During the course of the movie, Ripley and Newt work together to protect each other from the monsters, developing a not-too-sentimental mother-daughter relationship...