Word: apartness
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...Franklin arrived in London in 1757 as the Pennsylvania Assembly's agent, and apart from a two year gap (during which he returned to Philadelphia) lived there until 1775. During his residence, the house functioned as a de facto U.S. embassy and the center of the American polymath's intellectual and social activities. He entertained Enlightenment thinkers in the sitting room, and in 1775 held negotiations there with William Pitt the Elder. When those failed, he fled London under threat of arrest...
...Grande show mounting popular rejection of the free-market reforms and trade agreements long promoted by Washington, but which are seen by Latin Americans as widening the region's epic gap between rich and poor. But in Bolivia, the vote also threatens to tear the country apart. If no candidate wins more than 50% at the polls, a president must be chosen by Congress, where Morales's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) will likely have less clout than the parties of his more conservative rivals such as Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, a former President and IBM executive who currently trails Morales...
...readings—and this may reek of anti-intellectualism and cynicism—an ambitious curriculum means nothing if it is not also practical. Apart from assigning less reading for courses, TF’s might send focus questions to students before section, so students who are strapped for time (a completely realistic expectation) can focus their reading on a few key issues...
...extra hours.” Katherine A. Hasty ’07 said she prefers to tutor only those students with whom she has developed a rapport. She said she started tutoring because of a love of writing and discussing politics, not for the $12-an-hour wage. So, apart from the core group she tutors, Hasty said she generally will not answer e-mail requests for tutors. “I tend to stick more with people I’ve been working with all term and have built up a relationship with,” Hasty said...
...dazzling Leoni, who steals every scene as the straight (wo)man to the larger-than-life Carrey. Her comic timing is so in tune, she and Carrey are the perfect comic team. Leoni’s character, a desperate housewife trying to keep up appearances as her life falls apart, allows viewers to sympathize with Dick and Jane’s dilemma. The humor of the film lies in the hilarious robbery scenes juxtaposed against suburban normalcy. When Dick and Jane attempt to rob a coffee shop, they also demand two iced mochas and non-fat muffins, with the cashier...