Word: almost
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...married couple. Harvard has brought them closer--at home in New York, they live two hours apart; in Mather House, they live on either side of the same bathroom. Christina and Damaris, both literature concentrators, hope to attend law school and become judges. Together. After all, they almost share an identity. "In high school, my adviser, who was also a psychologist, said we were antisocial," Damaris explains. "We have all the same friends, but we do have friends. We just don't have friends by ourselves." When one is asked, "How are you doing?" she will often reply...
...Even when Lindi was a toddler, she revealed a natural ability to deal with changes in life. Teresa Dovey explains, "When Lindi was almost two and we were expecting our second child, I was concerned about how Lindi would react to having her place at the center of things usurped by a new sibling. I thought it might help if she had a new doll to play with when we brought a new baby home...and I imagined she would enjoy dressing the doll while I was dressing the baby. When I came back from the maternity hospital with...
...didn't manage his life at any point. We try to give advice," Professor Kishlansky says. Indeed, Matt had an unusual amount of freedom during his teenage years. "I had no curfew in high school," he says. "My parents were always generously lenient with me, almost laissez-faire...
...With the re-release of "Gone With the Wind" last summer, I (and every octogenarian in the woodwork) thronged the theaters to see Clark Gable in his original technicolor splendor. To the words, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," I found myself in cinematic raptures that almost resulted in my gagging on a popcorn kernel. In fourth grade, when every other girl in my class aspired to be Paula Abdul, I wanted to be Scarlett O'Hara. During this formative time, I underwent a mercifully brief period where I let Scarlett's Georgian accent bleed into...
Sollors says he spends an average of two hours a month on each of his committees. That translates to a whopping 30 hours a month in committee meetings, or almost one additional work week, a level he terms "unsustainable...