Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from at least one piece of routine advice offered to Harvard first-years. Harvard students are encouraged not to think in stereotypes, but rather to challenge assumptions and avoid unwarranted conclusions. Although it is unfortunate that Jacoby's own advising relationship disappointed her, her sweeping generalization about "friendly yet blank" eyes fails to describe either the knowledgeable and dedicated colleagues I've had the privilege of associating with during my first few weeks as a proctor or the behavior of first-years who appear to find their advisers informative and helpful as well as friendly. My own preparation for this...
...weeks before the first-years show up, but only enough time to have a rudimentary knowledge of some departments and programs on campus. Having a professor who knew the scoop on different classes and concentrations as an advisor would have been such a gift during the first year. Instead, blank eyes greeted the overwhelmed first-year, friendly yet blank. The world of Cores, requirements and concentrations is befuddling. A guiding hand would have been more than appreciated...
According to Fino, Kemp once asked him point blank whether Cosentino was connected to the mob (Fino says he told him yes), but Fino is hazy about when this exchange took place. Alixe Glen, Kemp's spokeswoman, calls the allegations "unfounded" and "politically motivated." Representative John Conyers of Michigan, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, has formally requested that the committee bring Fino back to Washington for questioning...
Kagan said these findings help support the theory that babies are not the "blank tablet" they were once commonly thought...
...about running into Reich is the first you behold an incredibly short, mature adult and then you notice that the incredibly short adult is Robert Reich, one of the most powerful people in the executive branch. Searching desperately for a provocative, newsworthy question to ask him, my mind goes blank. Before I can pull myself together, two HRTV people whisk him away to do an interview. Their camera looks remarkably like the palmcorder my parents received as a gift for their 20th anniversary...