Word: behinds
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...secrecy will always give rise to rumors and accusations. When there is a conflict over a tenure decision, the more frequently University officials proclaim the objectivity of the process, the less likely the Harvard community is to believe them. A more open tenure process could eliminate the accusations of behind-the-scenes influence and stacked committees that followed the Honig and Berkowitz decisions...
...were just focused on the group ahead of us, not what was coming from behind us," he says. "Your mission is to look in front of you, not behind you, you have people marching at your left, right, front and back...
...Most Harvard students felt clubs were esoteric, preppy organizations way behind the times, according to Parry...
...against it. "He basically said, 'Look, there are a million better singers than you in the world,'" says Dido. "He never saw it because he's my brother--and that's fair enough. He's sort of come round to the idea, and of course now he's passionately behind...
...Hovering behind its presentation is the vaguely boosterish feeling that Degas felt some unusual affinity to New Orleans and to Louisiana in general. "Louisiana must be respected by all her children," he wrote to his friend Henri Rouart in Paris, "and I am almost one of them." Alas, it's Degas being ironic. The sentences before make this clear: speaking of New Orleans women, he wrote that "their heads are as weak as mine, which a deux would prove a strange guarantee for a new home...