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...group of 500 or 600? Could Harvard realistically rescind such a substantial proportion of its class at such a late date? If not, the scenario would be no different than the doomsday predictions flying around in June. And after a chaotic year, early decision schools would be forced to abandon their programs. If only a few students attempt to renege, they are likely to suffer. But if enough do, the system would fall apart...
...Does this mean we should all abandon our monthly self-exams? No. But it does mean we need to look at the practice with new, more reasonable expectations. And it also means that women who find the whole self-exam process to be more anxiety producing than reassuring can give themselves a break...
...date most historians assign to the actual birth of the religion called Judaism.) But Abraham represents a revolution in thought. While he is not a pure monotheist (he never suggests that other gods do not exist), he is the Ur-monotheist, the first man in the Bible to abandon all he knows in order to choose the Lord and consciously move ever deeper into that choice, until the point of no return on Moriah...
Should CID abandon this philosophy, Sachs says, “I would certainly invite students interested in the interface of research and advising, outreach [and] fieldwork to consider the activities of the Earth Institute at Columbia University...
...city ready. The numbers of volunteer applications continues to increase daily. Also, after initial reluctance, people are signing up to open their homes to fans coming to Athens who cannot find hotels. Polls now show that tens of thousands of Athenians who originally said they were planning to abandon the city in August have decided to stay in town to welcome the Games back home. Come August 2004, Athens will be a happier, more crowded place - ready...