Word: towered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defendant was indicted March 18 for possession of psilocybin and marijuana, with intent to distribute both. Because Schaffer’s room in the Mather House tower was less than 1,000 feet from the Martin Luther King Jr. School on Putnam Avenue, he also faces charges of drug violations within a school zone...
...Harvard’s holdings in Gulf Oil, which supports the military regime in Angola. The takeover galvanizes the South African divestment campaign. In 1977, 2000 students block the entrance to University Hall in protest; in 1986, 200 divestment activists erect a shanty town and a symbolic ivory tower in the yard. The ACSR petitions for divestment from South Africa regularly between...
...study group, called “Tower of Babble: The Search for News and Truth in the New Millennium,” has hosted speakers such as ABC News anchor Sam Donaldson, former CNN CEO and Chairman Walter Isaacson, and blogger Jeff Jarvis...
...Dupont full of dewy ambition, expecting to live "a life of the mind." Instead, she encounters charming, predatory frat boys like the handsome Hoyt Thorpe; jock demigods like basketball star Jojo Johanssen; and icy prep-school snobs like her roommate, the bitchy Groton grad Beverly. Instead of an ivory tower, she finds a status-obsessed, intellectually bankrupt sexual romper room. Will she hold to her ideals or be dragged down into the beer-soaked...
...West addresses the Summers dispute within the larger context of the obligation of intellectuals and professors to go beyond the ivory tower and engage with the democratic community as a whole. His critique of Summers is framed within a larger criticism of “the technocratic management culture on the rise in our universities today [that] offers few…democratic rewards...