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Though a prominent lawyer in New York City, Kissel was also an avid scholar of Hindu philosophy. His studies of human morals inspired an interest in ethics, eventually leading to his support for the creation of an ethics program at Harvard. It was former University President Derek C. Bok's idea to fund professors teaching ethics and to encourage instruction among the teaching community that Kissel found his cause...
...hang-ups. The results depict a generation in transition, propelled by globalization into ever closer political and economic union but still firmly rooted in national and local identities. Though young Europeans share some of the same worries about biotechnology and the environment, what really binds them together is an avid embrace of change...
However, as any avid shuttle bus rider is aware, drivers neglect this responsibility with startling frequency. Sometimes motivated by sympathy for students rushing to get to class on time, other times motivated by frustration with students unwilling to comply with polite requests to step off, drivers allow buses to fill beyond their capacity, oftentimes ceasing to record the number of students who end up squeezing their way on so as not to leave an official record of the illegal overcrowding...
...Crimson interview, Summers then chatted with reporters about his interests, inquiring about the status of the tennis courts at Harvard. Summers is an avid tennis player and has regular faceoffs against other Washington insiders...
...effect, to validate an idea he's been nursing for five years. But he thinks the show is pretty small potatoes--nothing more than "mean-spirited office politics being played out on TV." Despite that send-up, Minahan, a onetime producer for the MTV tabloid show Buzz, is an avid viewer of reality TV. "It brings out the worst in everyone. It's exploitative, manipulative, it encourages narcissism and exhibitionism, it's antisocial...But I love it." For, he says, those moments when "a little bit of truth peeks through...