Word: throwings
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...struck by cancer at 38, Simon says, "the doctor told me how long she had to live, and I decided we wouldn't tell her. But she knew. And only once did she ever show that she was scared." Simon's way of handling the strain was to throw himself into writing about the randomness and futility of life in The Good Doctor (1973), an attempt at dramatizing Chekhov-like stories, and God's Favorite (1974), a deliberately vulgar retelling of the Book of Job. Both were among the few misfires in his career, artistically and commercially. After Joan...
...another debate in the war on grackles that is being waged across the country and the methods being used to curb the grackle population. In order to discourage roosting, city administrators in Tempe, Ariz., tried lathering their downtown trees with a concord grape coating that made the birds throw up. Other solutions are more violent. A few years ago, in an odd reversal of stereotypes, the University of Texas in Austin bought shotguns to scare off the grackles, while A&M, famed for its Corps of Cadets, opted for a recording of a shotgun blast echoing through the barracks' courtyards...
...David Cameron: Of course we need a climate-change deal that incorporates India and China and America to make real progress, but we shouldn't just wait for that and stop doing anything else and throw our hands up in despair. That is a defeatist argument. We should be setting an example to the rest of the world. We should be providing some leadership on this issue and that will make it more likely that we can encourage the Americans, Indians and Chinese and others to come in and make an agreement about this...
...nothing else, Harvard professors are a smart bunch, and their paths to Harvard’s storied halls have been paved by pronounced senses of can-do. But, to throw an old adage on its head, we seem to have arrived at a place in which those who can do can’t teach. Now it is up to Harvard to motivate its professors to teach well. At a new Harvard where effective teaching is a sought-after skill both learned and taught, fluency in genius will be made evident by its effective translation to its future speakers: captivated...
...newly formed “Students for Obama” plans to get in touch with the campaign as soon as it can and initiate trips to New Hampshire in the spring, according to group member Nathaniel J. Lubin ’09. Obama is expected to formally throw his hat into the ring Feb. 10. —Staff writer Marie C. Kodama can be reached at mckodama@fas.harvard.edu...