Word: vernal
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...Corlisses, wouldn't have it any other way. For us, the opening of a May film festival triggers a renewal of faith in film. Optimism surges with the spring; hope springs vernal. This is where the seeds are planted in a garden of film that will bloom for the rest of the year. This is where Pulp Fiction, L.A. Confidential, The Pianist, Mystic River, Fahrenheit 9/11 and many other Oscar winners were first seen. Film is our religion, and Cannes marks the beginning of our liturgical calendar...
Unlike SpringFest, its vernal counterpart on the river, FallFeast is entirely financed by the council and directed at undergraduates...
...foliage is in full color this week in Arizona's Coconino National Forest. Also peaking is northeastern Utah, especially along U.S. Highway 191 from Vernal to Flaming Gorge. And in central Colorado the mountains flanking Interstate 70, particularly at Loveland Pass, are awash in color. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...bossa nova singer Wilson Simonal, also made a splash with his album Samba Raro. Now Moreno Veloso, son of Tropicalia genius Caetano Veloso, is raising his voice. Veloso's CD (made with bandmates Domenico and Kassin) is no mere echo of his father; his inventive songs have a quiet, vernal charm all their...
...present, Harvard's network infrastructure is incredibly insufficient," says Michael S. Vernal '01, who is also a teaching fellow for Computer Science 244: "Advanced Network Design Projects." According to Vernal, the FAS network is connected to the outside world via a single 100mbps (megabits-per-second) pipe. Each of the network's 12,000 connections shares this bandwidth. Says Vernal: "If one-third of the undergraduate population was using the FAS network at the same time, each student would be connected at the speed of a 56.6kbps modem." That's the connection speed you'd expect of your...