Word: wintered
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...Common grackles, as they are known, are just that - common, especially in the fall and winter when southern birds move into the urban areas and northern birds fly south in great flocks of thousands. Google "grackle" and you will find birding sites that describe them as "opportunistic foragers" and "boisterous and abundant." For every rhapsodic bird lover, there is someone like director Michael Berry, whose successful short film Day of the Grackle, depicts one man's war with a grackle from hell...
...planning vacations and gloating to unlucky roommates with dreaded Monday and Tuesday exams. But a fortunate few have been laughing for some time now—students who, through a combination of term papers and December exams, have gone through January fully final-free. Thanks to serendipitous scheduling last winter, Amy C. Stebbins ’07, a History and Literature concentrator, finished all five of her courses without sitting for a single final exam, ending up with perhaps the longest intersession of any student. The combination of her arts, humanities, and language courses—and the fact that...
...with a simple directness. His call to arms against the plight of the homeless in the bitter winter of 1954, after a woman froze to death in Paris with her eviction notice in hand, remains one of the most broadly cited expressions of human compassion in the French language. Once he became famous, he was happy to embarrass those who honored him into taking real action. In 1992 he was named a Grand Officer in the French Legion of Honor, but refused to wear the insignia until the government found a humane solution for the plight of 300 African families...
...Joshua D. Smith ’08 did precisely that. A native of Plant City, Florida—the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World—Smith left home with his conservative credentials intact, and returned having been elected co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA). But the e-mails preaching the right-wing gospel have kept on coming...
...there much anxiety evident amid the Faraya set. As they head back down from the hills to the coast, many families will have a strange new white hood ornament on their cars. Snowmen are a winter status symbol that tell everyone in your home village that you've been up in the mountains for the weekend. The fact that the snowmen often block windshield visibility doesn't seem to bother anyone. Indeed, a certain joie de vivre in the face of danger is as Lebanese as the cedar tree. As my Lebanese skiing buddy, Alex, said when an errant snowboarder...