Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question about academic interviews. I explicitly praise the Director of Undergraduate Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70 for saying, "This is a place open to talent... we don't get hung up on irrelevant attributes." The point is this: if I were Adair's interviewer, I would never have asked her, "Do you have a boyfriend?" It is a rude question to ask anyone, whatever his or her sexual orientation. It has nothing to do with Adair's academic performance, and nothing to do with her qualifications for the scholarship...
...Yard dorms comprise a "microcosm" where universal key-card access has failed to guard first-years from intruders; therefore, having universal access would in fact not resolve the issue of "strangers" intruding. But Lewis fails to see that if universal key-card access were implemented, the question we'd ask would no longer be "How do I know you go to Harvard...
WORCESTER, Mass.--Consolation wins never provide the feeling their names indicate. Just ask the Harvard women's basketball team...
...reconcile the moral dilemma of shared toothpaste with my ingrained compulsive ways? I ask my roommates for help. "Give it up," they say. Is it that easy? They begin a training program that includes jumping on my bed daily, borrowing my clothes and using my soap. "We'll cure you in no time," they assure me confidently, scattering dust bunnies around the room. I cringe at first; such annoying girls! What horrible friends! I question the health of our relationship. But the dirty life becomes easier with each passing day, and the state of my room and the germ level...
...today's top-performing kitchen gadgets isn't new so much as it is newly attainable. The latest automatic breadmakers, for example, are much cheaper than earlier models: prices have fallen from $300 to the more moderate $70-to-$150 range, and sales have soared. Still, you might ask, why would someone want to spend even that much for a machine that makes one of the cheapest and most accessible items on your grocery list...