Word: wakeful
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Although many other universities, including Yale and Brown, have developed ethnic studies departments in the wake of student activism, Harvard does not have an ethnic studies department or a degree committee...
...other issue is that of reconciliation with the Aborigines. Australia was unusual in that when European occupied the continent in the wake of the founding of the penal colony of New South Wales in 1788, it was regarded, in legal terms, as being "terra nullius," that is to say, uninhabited. Thus the Aborigines were not deemed to have any claims to native land title, nor was there felt to be any need, as in North America and New Zealand, to negotiate treaties with the native inhabitants. Legally, Aborigines were invisible; dispossession could proceed without even the formalities of legal process...
...Zedong loved to swim. In his youth, he advocated swimming as a way of strengthening the bodies of Chinese citizens, and one of his earliest poems celebrated the joys of beating a wake through the waves. As a young man, he and his close friends would often swim in local streams before they debated together the myriad challenges that faced their nation. But especially after 1955, when he was in his early 60s and at the height of his political power as leader of the Chinese People's Republic, swimming became a central part of his life. He swam...
This final club seems to think its posh digs on desirable Harvard Square real estate aren't enough, nor the loud parties the Harvard Police seem not to notice. The club seems to think it needs to wake young lasses mid-dream to prove its masculinity...
There are small, troubling notes, nevertheless, such as two 11-year-old boys who, speaking to a reporter in the wake of the tragedy, vied with each other for the title of Drew Golden's "best friend," telling tales of how their pal had talked about "taking over" the school. And, for all the goodwill and faith and forgiveness, there are some hearts that may never be comforted. Mitchell Wright lost his wife Shannon to the hail of bullets. His fading tan is a reminder of a happier time. It was just three weeks ago that he, Shannon and their...