Word: absents
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...Undergraduate Council last night approved its first spring grants package absent funding for the Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF), citing the need for a committee to investigate discrimination in the organization’s constitution...
...fact that while their guy was being beaten senseless in the Hanoi Hilton, Bush was safe at home, protecting Houston from foreign attack. Al Gore steered clear too. It was not until a week before Election Day in November 2000 that Gore surrogates accused Bush of having gone AWOL--absent without leave--for an entire year while in the Guard. But few journalists, and fewer voters, paid much attention...
...ponderous nature of Mt. Eerie is absent on Live in Japan, a sober collection of new songs culled from the bare-bones shows Elvrum performed before retiring the Microphones’ moniker for good. All the ingredients of vintage Microphones are present: droopy guitars, moan-singing and months spent in isolation. But the magic of the spacious soundscapes that Elvrum dreams up so well in basement studios is missing, save standout tracks like the break-up tune “The Blow, Pt. 2” and “Universe Conclusion,” a bone-shaking campfire call...
Over intersession, one of my roommates flew to Buenos Aires to visit our temporary Argentine. My roommate said that the city was wonderful–“It’s like a combination of Mexico City and Paris”—and that our absent roommate was happy there. In the pictures my roommate brought back she looks happy. The tilt of her head is more coquettish than I remember, the cut of her clothes more sophisticated, her hair glossier, curlier. Because the pictures are a little overexposed, her smiles are undifferentiated bright crescents...
...captain Beverly Whelan, sophomore Laura Maludzinski and junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman—all of whom have been some of Harvard’s best runners since cross country season—were absent for a more intense meet at Notre Dame this weekend...