Word: winterize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...horse's hooves and the whistling of the wind through the pines and aspens. There are many other ways to traverse the great outdoors: cross-country skis, snowshoes, sleds, skates and snowmobiles--even a sleigh behind two Belgian draft horses. Downhill-ski enthusiasts can schuss at nearby Winter Park and Silver Creek...
...nearby bayside town of Harbor Springs (pop: 2,500), with its pretty decorations and lights, huge community tree and friendly shopkeepers, completes what Laila dubs "a winter wonderland, like something out of a storybook...
...second, shorter essay on an influential teacher. Most students opt for a boiler-plate hymn to the hardest teacher in school. But a rare description of a teacher who "was big, but not overweight ... like you could trust her to provide you with bread and beef through the winter" got the committee laughing. And the essay's touching conclusion - "she taught me how to improve from a mistake and still like myself" - sent them straight for the admit stamp. Otherwise, the student's B record would not have...
...haven't registered already, take this opportunity to exercise your civic muscles and do so. And if you have registered, take this opportunity to enjoy a rare sunny Sunday before winter sets in. It would be a shame not to see what the HYPE is about...
...Shakespeare's last plays, Cymbeline tells the story of a British royal family based loosely on an apocryphal Cymbeline, who supposedly lived in the first century. Like The Tempest or The Winter's Tale, other late plays classified as "Romances," Cymbeline mixes comedy and tragedy, resulting in a drama unlike much of Shakespeare's more familiar work. Critics complain that Cymbeline simply rehashes elements of Shakespeare's earlier plays-one finds strong parallels to characters and relationships from King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet-but producer Julia Griffin '03 takes the opposite view: late in his career, she contends, Shakespeare...