Word: avidity
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...them: They can either choose to benefit from advances by taking progressive stances or to suffer from obstinacy and inaction. Though fear of change in an old industry is understandable, obstructionism is inexcusable. Whether it is Google scanning great works in Widener to preserve them for posterity, or an avid fan merely typing out a newly released Harry Potter book, digitalization is coming to the printed world. We can only hope that publishers soon see the merits in supporting, not hindering, the advance of this process...
...avid sports fan, Obama sat in the back of his campaign bus last Saturday relaxing on a Lazy Boy and watching some ESPN News. As the ticker on the bottom of the television screen rolled through college football scores from across the nation, it finally came across the Ivy League...
...verdict: food first, food compost later. Although Harvard students are avid promoters of saving the environment, as seen in their support for doing away with that silly and wasteful convention of clothes, they would still put food that ensures taste, nutrition, and survival first. Hopefully, HUDS will take up this deliciously revealing piece of evidence and make more soufflés and less squash...
...tide of our politics may turn on Election Day—and, judging by the polls, most Americans would consider it a happy development. What becomes absolutely essential then, as these scandals have demonstrated, is to avoid at all costs slipping into the self-satisfied unreason of most avid supporters of Kilpatrick, or Stevens (or Bush). Instead, we should take whichever president we elect at his word, and be the active, thoughtful, and occasionally critical citizens we’ve been called...
First, you seem to have forgotten D. Zachary Tanjeloff ’08, avid entrepreneur and party-thrower, whose name is locally, nationally, and globally recognizable. Another alumnus that should surely be included is Eugene M. Plotkin ’00, a research analyst for Goldman Sachs who was savvy enough to make $6.7 million before a judge sentenced him to 57 months in prison for something silly like “insider trading.” It would also be preposterous to skip Frederick H. Gwynne ’51, forever known to audiences everywhere as Herman Munster...