Word: appealable
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...it’s all coming together, it’s really, really exciting.” According to Richards, “On the Heir” is different from its predecessors. “The freshman musical in the past has been very focused around Harvard, and appealed to Harvard freshmen,” she says. However, her concern was that the show usually caters only to freshmen: “Outsiders from the greater Boston community don’t really understand it. And that’s not something we want to do with this musical...
...Kennedy School of Government. Achmat expressed frustration with the American patent system. He acknowledged Harvard’s “special place” in work on AIDS, but he argued it should license its intellectual property more widely. He urged the audience to “appeal to [university administrators’] good conscience; I believe they have it.” As he took the podium, Achmat removed his jacket to reveal his trademark, a black t-shirt with the words “HIV POSITIVE.” His speech to the crowd of more than...
...both games against the toothless Lions, who played all afternoon like they had their cups on backwards. Still, I managed to enjoy myself. How? I’m not so sure. But something in two different sequences during game one reminded me of baseball’s ineffable appeal.* * *The first play was no joking matter. A kid got hurt. Columbia starting second baseman Kyle Roberts injured his knee when, on a ground ball to shortstop with runners on first and second and nobody out in the second inning, Matt Kramer slid hard into the base to break...
...explain her continuing popularity? It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form, but I would put her appeal down to consistency. In their eyes, she has never let them down. There's a sameness, but at the same time a vitality...
...Another study presented in January suggests the appeal of this kind of debating: People with strongly held beliefs (and who holds to them tighter than a Fox News contributor or a Daily Kos diarist?) love to disagree. An Emory University psychologist found that spotting hypocrisy in an opponent literally tickles the brain's pleasure center. It has "curious parallels with drug addiction" - which may explain a lot about Rush Limbaugh...