Word: afterthought
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...sure, College administrators have many ideas about how they would like to use the month of January. Indeed, much of the support for calendar reform stems from a desire to use the month of January for innovative new curricular projects. They argue that J-term is not simply an afterthought in the quest to align Harvard’s calendars, but an integral part of the reason. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 calls the potential J-term “an opportunity for us to offer types of instruction that we don?...
...anything, he's a little late. Video games overtook movies in the annual revenue race in 1999. But that was an apples-to-oranges contest. The average game costs up to five times as much as a movie ticket. And back then a console title was a movie afterthought, a more expensive Burger King toy. Now, with original blockbuster fare like Everything or Nothing, released in February, the titans of the $21 billion games business have shown their Hollywood cousins (a puny $9.2 billion biz) they can lead as well as follow...
...gossip on Scarlett Johansson’s stunning Ferretti gown, Diane Keaton’s hyper-androgynous tux and Renee Zellweger’s vintage-inspired Carolina Herrera could very well go on forever. The movies themselves seem like an afterthought. I suppose you could say that I’m still drunk on the bacchanalian wonder that is fashion at the Oscars...
...consisted of the occasional course taught by a visiting professor. Also, the Courses of Instruction do not offer any classes that critically analyze Asian Americans in history, government, psychology or other fields. Even the rare acknowledgment of Asian Americans in the curriculum occurs as a cursory and reductive afterthought...
...Berkeley-based computer entrepreneurs whose company was best known for a screensaver that featured flying toasters. In 1997 they sold it for $13.8 million. Then came impeachment. Wes and Joan put together a website and sent it to friends. Its title and policy: Censure and Move On. As an afterthought, the couple put together an e-mail list of supporters. "It was supposed to be a flash campaign," says Wes. "We're in, we're out, we're fixed...