Word: jewels
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...think it's the most challenging course we have. It's really the crown jewel of the program," says Stephen M. Kosslyn, head tutor of the Psychology Department...
...government carrier access to the air network of the company, which is based in Memphis, Tenn. In return, the blue-uniformed postal workers would pick FedEx packages up from your door and deliver them right to your door. In effect, that would hand FedEx the Postal Service's crown jewel: the exclusive, government-mandated right to open the mailbox at the end of every American driveway, known in the industry as "the last mile." For all their planes and trucks, none of the private carriers can match the USPS's ground-based delivery network...
Gomez will get a chance to act like a celebrity when he goes back to Anchorage this summer, which is, after all, attached to Canada. It may come from a biased source, but his mother Dalia seems pretty sure her son is the most popular person in Alaska. "Jewel might be big, but I've heard she's canceled two concerts on people here," Dalia says. "Right now Scott is the big thing. Jewel is out of the picture." Especially if she can't show off the Stanley...
...issues that students confronted this year--police brutality, ethnic studies, American military involvement in Puerto Rico--are a generation removed from those that motivated protesters in 1970. After all, Afro-American studies has evolved from a marginal concession to the "jewel in Harvard's crown...
...James L. Matory '82, a recently tenured professor of anthropology and Afro-American studies, says Gates not only resurrected the department but made it "the jewel in Harvard's crown...