Word: cauldron
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...social cauldron of high school weighed on her. She didn't get along with the cheerleaders on the yearbook staff. And her avid interest in Stephen King novels and TV shows about forensics earned her a false reputation, she says, as a glum goth girl. So she started ditching class, barreling through the Indiana countryside alone in her Dodge Neon, blasting her favorite song, The Ghost of You, by My Chemical Romance--a song, as she puts it, about missed opportunities and regret...
...troops in Iraq: We nominally exclude women from combat, but as your article explained, women regularly find themselves in full-blown battles. It is the normal instinct of every decent man to protect women and children. That we are now sending women--including the mothers of babies--into the cauldron of war is another sign that America has lost...
...course, all of this is hogwash. Having attended Harvard as an undergraduate, and having taught here for six years, I can attest that the Faculty is in no way a festering cauldron of left-wing lunatics. Overall, its members are a diverse and impressive group of hard-working scholars, variously committed to teaching and public life, open-minded and broadly tolerant, but generally quite slow to voice their dissent on most matters. In other words, they are politically liberal but temperamentally quite moderate. Much like the undergraduates they teach, they are more interested in professional success than in social justice...
Visitors to Tradesports.com yesterday were greeted with a banner ad that read, “Larry Summers in Hot Water Again!?,” next to images of the Harvard insignia and of Summers’ head hovering above a boiling cauldron...
...Olympic torch had been lit by a sparkling blaze that circled the stage and then raced up six support tubes to the cauldron, which at 187 feet is the tallest in the history of the games. It looked as if the opening ceremonies for the XX Olympic Winter Games were over. Shivering audience members started filing out, still wearing the white ponchos that had been placed on each seat with the aim of evoking an icy wonderland on television, since Torino has been unseasonably warm and there is no real snow in town. But it turned out they were leaving...