Word: absents
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...find that it works pretty well—the time it takes to wait for someone to answer the door is enough time to write ‘Sorry I missed you,’” Murphy says after personalizing a pamphlet that he leaves for an absent resident.Most of the residents who are home offer Murphy nothing more than a handshake and a smile after hearing his overtures. However, Murphy speaks with residents for as long as they wish, sometimes for more than 10 minutes. One Porter Square resident, Glenn Heinmiller, chats with Murphy at length about...
Still, for the moment, most politicians and activists on the left are keeping their powder dry, trying their best to express reservations about Alito without lashing out and sounding shrill. Absent a number of Republican defections, the Democrats will be unable to block Alito unless they resort to a filibuster that will prolong debate and prevent a full vote. And if they go that route, many Republicans have vowed to pursue the "nuclear option"--using a simple majority to pass a rule ending filibusters for judicial nominations...
...seasoned and they know what to do so I’m glad they’re starting to take control.”Despite the perfect won-loss mark Harvard carried through the weekend, what Stone saw on the ice was far from perfect, with thoughtless infractions and absent-minded puck control topping the list of complaints.“I’m encouraged that we won two games this weekend,” Stone said. “But, oh boy, we’ve got a long way to go. We’ve got just...
...husband—and he spent the last 27 years of his life in a mental hospital suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. “[H]is inchoate madness may have energized his antigay campaign,” Wright speculates.CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUEPaley’s name is conspicuously absent from Wright’s acknowledgments and his bibliography (although Wright does credit The Crimson several times in his book’s text.) “I felt flummoxed by the fact that [Paley] wouldn’t talk to me,” Wright said at the Coop...
...wiped off the map.” Following his talk, Dershowitz opened the floor to questions. Answering questions on U.S.-Iranian relations, political barriers to peace, and international law, Dershowitz again emphasized the benefit of rational discussion of the conflict, something he said is absent from many campuses. “Thank God Israel only has to make peace with the Palestinians, not with the professors,” he said in closing...