Word: wintered
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...Koval, 46, figured his boarding house for a gold mine. The two-storied building with 23 double rooms is only a short walk from the Black Sea coast in Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta, a town just 28 miles (45 km) down the shoreline from Sochi - the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics. But Koval's reckoning of future wealth turned sour early this year when it started looking as if a government decree requisitioning his property for Olympic development could render his home and source of income all but worthless. "The prospect of confiscation has killed the real estate market...
...original announcement laid out the general calendar with classes beginning earlier in September, moving fall exams before winter break, and ending the academic year in May. But beyond that, many choices were left to each faculty, particularly with regard to the January term, or “J-term...
...Across Harvard’s nine graduate schools, the J-term represents an opportunity to engage students in intensive short-term courses and to allow them to travel abroad, though most schools expect to make the three-week winter term optional...
...Some of Harvard’s biggest graduate schools, including Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School, have already moved independently to a calendar that places exams before the winter holidays...
...kind of appeal it's hard to imagine working for Obama is a racial appeal; he knows he can't win as the Black Candidate. I remember watching Obama in a school auditorium in Berlin, N.H., this winter, long before Rev. Wright became a household name. One aging hippie-after saying he hoped his question "doesn't seem odd in the whitest place on earth"-asked Obama if he would launch another "national conversation about race," as President Clinton did. And Obama said: No. "I'm less interested in a conversation about race in the abstract," he said...