Word: abruptness
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...unhealthy off-campus dinners. Parental love too often crowds out honesty, and the extra pounds accumulated since August probably find a place in the dialogue. The “freshman fifteen” is accepted as part of the quintessential college experience. Everyone is aware of the dangers of abrupt weight gain during freshman year, and many students, as they visited colleges as prefroshes, probably even judged current college students. Yet even with this forewarning, the extra pounds continues to accumulate on college freshmen. But the fate of the freshman fifteen is not inevitable and, ultimately, cannot be blamed...
Dickinson Professor of Accounting Srikant M. Datar has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Kim B. Clark ’74 as the next dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS), according to professors at HBS and other top business schools.Clark’s abrupt departure this summer to lead Brigham Young University-Idaho left the school at a crossroads, as faculty debate the school’s guiding vision for the future.In interviews with The Crimson, HBS professors said Datar was a frontrunner for the deanship, along with six other frequently mentioned candidates, four of whom...
...because you don’t know if someone’s asked before, you might as well wait for someone to ask you.” The shake-ups in committee leadership leave possible pairings difficult to predict. Many expected Haddock and Epstein to run together, and the abrupt turnover at SAC and CLC has left UC vets dazed.“The fact that there are not that many returning members of the Council is going to make this election a lot harder to call in advance than last year’s,” says...
...Sith” to appropriately sum up its awfulness. Set on a lava-filled planet that looks like the Bowser stage from “Super Mario Bros.,” Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) exchange heated words on Anakin’s abrupt switch to the Dark Side. The only thing screenwriter George Lucas can think to give Padme (Natalie Portman ’03) to say at this important moment is, “Anakin, you’re breaking my heart!” Not only did my own heart break at hearing...
This modest growth is an abrupt shift from the first three years of Kirby’s tenure, when faculty growth averaged just over 21 hires per year...