Word: whirlpool
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...waded into the whirlpool of freshman ambition, but emerged unsatisfied. The freshmen would most likely mellow. I wanted to talk to an upperclassman, someone who had had time to be disillusioned—and who still thought he could be president. Caleb L. Weatherl ’10 had been president of the Harvard Republican Club as a sophomore. He wrote occasional political pieces as a member of The Crimson’s editorial board. I had never met him, but I kept hearing his name, prefaced, as if by Homeric epithet, by “that guy who wants...
...though he was decades away from a campaign in which both sides have accused the other of lies and misrepresentations, the media attention also gave him a taste of how the media whirlpool can stretch facts...
...spaces with hi-speed Internet access and video-conferencing capabilities. If you have some spare time, the National Aquarium with 16,500 animals, including a tank full of stingrays and sharks is just steps away. Or, instead, you can while away the time in the hotel's indoor pool, whirlpool and sauna. 401 West Pratt Street...
...also at tiny Iceland, whose government on Monday completed what amounts to an emergency seizure of its oversized banking sector. Prime Minister Geir Haarde went on television Monday night to warn his compatriots that "the Icelandic economy, in the worst case, could be sucked with the banks into the whirlpool, and the result could be bankruptcy." That's not just talk: Iceland's GDP amounts to less than one-tenth of the total assets of its three biggest banks, all of which are in trouble. British financial authorities warned on Tuesday that Icesave, a subsidiary of Landsbanki, Iceland's second...
...Ohio, even good news has dark shadows. The local Whirlpool plant employs about 4,000 people and produces 23,000 clothes dryers per day, but it's nonunion. "It takes a while before you're making $30,000 a year there," Hughes told me. "Hard for us to give mortgages to people making so little." But it's not hard for predatory lenders. The mayor of Marion, Scott Schertzer, told me that "we've gone from 57 foreclosures 10 years ago to more than 500 last year...