Word: wakes
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...happened to wake up last Friday in the wee hours of the morning when my phone buzzed, notifying me of e-mail. Thank goodness I did, for what I discovered as I willed my eyes open around 3:15 a.m. was an urgent message from the Harvard College Democrats. In an email sent by Samuel B. Novey ’11, the student group’s Communication Director, the Harvard Dems called on its rival organization, the Harvard Republicans Club (HRC), to denounce the tactics of Republican heavyweight Karl Rove, who was set to speak at the College...
...Everything was an obstacle. We started from an idea and just kept pushing,” Delle says. “We’d have to wake up at 2 a.m. to call Ghana...
...suggest that bedtime behaviors that soothe infants don't always benefit older children. "Giving food or drink to the child may be an appropriate answer when he awakes at night during the first months of life," Simard says, "However, most often, children at 29 to 41 months do not wake up because they are hungry." According to Simard's study, children whose parents fed them when they woke up in the middle of the night at age three were more likely to have nightmares and short sleep times at age four...
...like a wake in the dugout after that game,” Walsh said. “We felt like we had our chances to win that one. Losing really stung...
...suppression of unrest in Tibet last month. Images of that violence prepared the ground for groups like Reporters Without Frontiers, which have called on the French government to use the Beijing Games as a lever to pressure China to increase civil liberties and press freedom. It was in the wake of that spreading disquiet in France that President Nicolas Sarkozy became the first Western leader to suggest he might consider a boycott of the opening ceremonies to protest China's stance on human rights and Tibet...