Word: afternoon
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Harvard may already graduate some of the best and brightest, but yesterday afternoon's Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises honored those graduating seniors whose academic achievements exceeded even Harvard's typical standard of excellence...
Granted, not everyone lives on student-standard time. And the truth is, if she called me at 3:15 in the afternoon she might have woken me as well. In fact, it would probably have been a better bet to call me during Hong Kong business hours (the country or the restaurant) than during Eastern-Standard working hours...
...That afternoon, 2,000 moderate students voted for a three-day student strike to protest the use of police force...
...highlight of the afternoon's speeches was Sen. Kennedy's address. He outlined the five major points he would like to see Medicare address. These include: better adoption and dissemination of effective new treatments; improved delivery of outpatient and preventive care to the elderly; and encouraging the elderly to adopt healthier lifestyles...
...give him four business days to pop the question to Pee Wee and for Reubens to mull over his response. Then, bubbling over with anticipation, I give Anderson a Call late in the afternoon. But he's not in his office, I'm told. I call back four times over three days and remarkably, each time he's in a meeting, on the other line or not at his desk. On my fifth call, after I identify myself as a reporter for The Harvard Crimson, something clicks with the women on the other end of the line...