Word: crisps
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Nelson and current Vice President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 also performed well, but with less crisp and definitive answers than Haynes. The co-author of last year's Nelson-Grimmelmann Act started strong, hunkering down to the podium and gazing out at his listeners with conviction, but lost some connection with the audience as the night wore on. Rawlins, whose play-it-safe attitude and serious demeanor reflected the attitude of someone who's practically in heir apparent, appeared a little too packaged at times but nevertheless enumerated her accomplishments clearly...
...addition to his examination of the early life of the universe, Loeb studies gravitational lensing, a technique that offers astronomers crisp pictures of distant structures using light bent around the sun and other cosmic bodies close to the earth...
Long dismissed as just for rural folk, satellite dishes are now the entertainment system of choice for real couch potatoes. DirecTV has led the anti-cable charge, beaming crisp, digital pictures from 150 movie and sports channels to pizza-size discs (available from RCA and Sony) below. ($200 to $400 [dish] and $15 to $65 monthly [programming]; DirecTV...
...escort service. Maybe I should. Sometimes I simply like to walk. The shuttle can be crowded and hot, and it never seems to come when I need it. The libraries are over-heated and my head becomes cluttered with esoteric facts and my own neurotic obsessions. The cold crisp air can clear my thoughts. Walking home, feeling the blood rise to my cheeks from the cold is a literal breath of fresh air. And I want the option that I can walk if I want to. Of course, Harvard can't control the problems of urban living...
...picture the first time I met Bill Clinton, even though I was too young to remember it. It was a cool, crisp October day in 1978 in Danville, Arkansas, a small hamlet of 1,600 people in Yell County. The occasion was the Yell Country Fair, a veritable mecca for pols, both local and state...