Word: vanguarde
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...grapple with a nascent but potentially powerful medium - one they eventually tamed through trial and error. And that's a challenge and process not unlike the one facing Dare and other trailblazing digital ad agencies of today. It's an apt analogy, Collier says: "We're in the vanguard of a commercial revolution." And when it's completed, the Axe Feather website will likely seem to an audience in 50 years' time less boldly cheeky than quaintly amusing...
...terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia. Former officials like Flynt Leverett, who headed Middle East policy at Bush's National Security Council, say the prisoner-swap deal died in part because Administration conservatives, in the heady days after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, envisioned the M.E.K. as a potential vanguard force in an attempt to overthrow the Islamic regime in Tehran...
...really do like it—we are Harvard. And whether we deserve it or not, we have the unique power to influence all those who look to us with admiring and scrutinizing eyes. If we choose to oppose the tide of cultural mediocrity, we can be at the vanguard of a literary reformation. It is time to restore the loftiness, if not the arrogance, of the ivory tower...
...successful plaintiffs were among a vanguard group of 24 whose cases were heard by Jenkins as representative of the claims being made by relatives of 375 cancer victims. In the 14 other cases, the judge decided, atomic radiation was not clearly the cause of cancer. J. MacArthur Wright of St. George, Utah, an attorney who represented the victims, was pleased that Jenkins' decision establishes clear standards for litigating-or settling out of court-the remaining cases. "What I see as important," said Wright, "is that in all of the leukemia cases we tried, the court ruled...
...class awards. In addition, Ugo Nduaguba, a local senior at John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science in Roxbury was granted the Black Men of Achievement Scholarship Award, which comes with a $1,000 stipend. The ABHW also presented John Hope Bryant with the Vanguard Award, a tribute presented to a distinguished black male outside the Harvard Community who is “selfless, dedicated, and service oriented,” according to Tiffanye Threadcraft ’07. Past winners have included talk show host and philanthropist Montel Williams, journalist Kevin Powell, and news broadcaster...