Word: treads
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Hair tugged into a messy ponytail, I tread down the steps of my Annapolis townhouse and jog towards Main Street. Downtown Annapolis is a lot like Cambridge-—brick sidewalks, bad traffic and old-fashioned charm. I jog towards the sailboat-dotted harbor...
...powerful woman still has to tread lightly on her way to the top. That may mean dropping and adding names as the situation dictates - Teresa Heinz Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton - even occasionally offering to fetch the coffee. On the way down, she has to be even more careful if she ever hopes to rise again. Even for the strongest of the breed, the best strategy is to feign weakness, to play the damsel in distress. Martha Stewart, that means...
...Leary was pirouetting with Viktor Plotnikov and Larissa Ponomarenko of the Boston Ballet, she’d be in front of an audience of 3,700 with a 60-piece orchestra playing the strains of the “Nutcracker Suite.” Today, she will tread the boards to take in the entire 4,800 square feet of performance space solo...
...seniors’ time at Harvard. While early signs, including the selection of Will Ferrell to be Class Day speaker, indicate a promising Senior Week, the class committee will do well to remember the dissatisfaction the soiree and the distribution of tickets have engendered and to tread more cautiously in the future. And to help insure an excellent few final weeks for the Class of 2003—and all subsequent seniors—Harvard should provide additional funds and whatever institutional support is necessary for successful events. Senior spring should be splendid. We only graduate from college once...
...years Kawa Karpo has been sacred to Tibetan Buddhists, and it is the site of a major annual pilgrimage. Locals are fond of recounting the cautionary tale of one of many ill-fated mountaineering expeditions: a team perished on the ascent, Tibetans believe, because it was blasphemous enough to tread on holy ground...