Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring the review down to earth. While the movie is generally well-written, often funny, only the final twists allow things to just squeak into an ending before turning irredeemably tiresome. Everyone seems overly confident in the script's zinginess and protean plotting--and therefore gets lazy...
...nostalgia. A number of House crew rowers are former varsity or novice rowers who were unable to continue that level of involvement in crew for whatever reason, but find House crew a less-time-consuming outlet for their desire to be on the water. House crew does allow current crewheads to participate--varsity rowers may cox and varsity coxes may row. House crew also gives people who have no experience with rowing the opportunity to get inside some of that "lore and mystery...
Sophomore James Blake, currently ranked No. 1 in the country, has been consistently stellar all season, but has played in only two of the last four matches. He sat out a match against New Mexico State because of a back injury and rode the bench against Cornell to allow less-seasoned teammates some match experience...
Instead, Fanger says he wanted to pursue a research professorship that would allow him to write more before he "lost [his] marbles," he quipped...
...every meaningful way it is the same thing as a professor emeritus, Fox and Thompson say. Just like professors emeriti, research professors do not receive salaries, teach classes, retain a vote in Faculty meetings or have departmental responsibilities. But both titles allow professors office space and continued access to the Harvard library system, among other perks...