Word: wildes
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...Gates also distrusted bold initiatives. When Casey set up the Counter-Terrorism Center, the warhorse he was going to ride into battle against the terrorists, Gates was nowhere to be seen. When I worked at the Counter-Terrorism Center and was summoned upstairs to brief Casey on a particularly wild operation, Gates wasn't there. It wasn't because he wasn't welcome. He was busy running the CIA, taking care of the boring details - details Casey was delighted to delegate...
...spent enough time with them to see how their personalities have developed. Adam is easily distracted, while Mariam could flip through the pages of a book forever. Mariam speaks in short, complete sentences while Adam mimics adult conversation—complete with wild gesticulations and even pregnant pauses—all while failing to utter a single intelligible word. (The men in my family...what...
...Unique” (Def Jam/Roc-a-Fella) 2 STARS In an age of hip-hop postures and publicity stunts, Ol’ Dirty Bastard was the real thing. A founding member of the revolutionary hip-hop outfit Wu-Tang Clan, he was the group’s loosest cannon, a wild man whose erratic and self-destructive behavior was reflected in his primitive, off-balance, and completely singular microphone style. He lived the life and died to prove it: when he overdosed in 2004, he left behind a string of convictions, 13 children, and one of the most brilliantly chaotic legacies...
...last Thursday night, as students descended upon Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium to watch perhaps the least Harvardy form of entertainment—the soap opera. Harvard’s only soap premiered its fourth season to a gleeful crowd, marked by enthusiastic hugs at the door, wild mwahhing across the auditorium, and a palpable oozing of excitement. Kristina R. Yee ’10, had “been anticipating the premiere all week!”—and came prepared with Tealuxe, Terra chips, and Sour Patch Kids. It was not only Harvard students...
Given the strains between monkey and modern man, some Indians believe the only solution is to return the animals to the wild. But even that wouldn't end the debate. Environmentalists point out that Delhi's monkeys have become urbanized and may not survive in the wild. Activists also complain that in the process of rounding up monkeys, many are injured and babies get separated from mothers. "We have to tackle this another way," says Gautam Grover, head of the protection group Animal Saviour. "We took their land, we took their trees, we took their forests, and now we just...