Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Maria was the 19-year-old friend of his youngest sister, looking for a way - any way - to leave her small village in Greece. Nick was the 37-year-old man who, more than 15 years, before had left his house, less than a mile from her own, in a crisp, clean, official military uniform. She grew up hearing stories about George and Marika's son, the boy who completed his mandatory two years of service and then left Greece to join his older brother in America. There, he moved to Chicago's Greektown, worked at a variety...
...asks for her hand in marriage. The deal is done, girl is notified of the arrangement and, two weeks later, the local kids are married in the town church. The next day, they leave Greece, my mother binding her future to a man with whom she has shared less than an hour's worth of private conversation. She knows no one in Chicago besides her husband; she understands only a handful of English words, spoken with a slight British accent...
Some Houses cancelled parties last Friday night to accommodate students studying for the MCATs. But an hour away in Providence, there was a lingering smell of hops, assemblages of students dancing - with rhythm no less - the discernable sound of revelry, good music and an abundance of alcohol. At Brown, where another Spring Weekend has come and gone. Multitudes of Harvard students flocked to the saturnalia for a fleeting glimpse of what other campuses call a good time...
However, should an election-worried Congress take the calls to "de-fund the fund" and "break the bank" more literally, the result would be more instability and economic pain for developing countries, not less. Countries do not take IMF loans with all the attached strings if they feel they would be better off without them, and the poor would be the first to suffer from a sustained global downturn. Furthermore, the World Bank funds a number of projects--community lending, health and nutritional improvements, and education for poor children--that achieve a great deal of good in the developing world...
Given such a rivalry between two evenly matched teams, one would expect nothing less than a challenge for the Crimson...