Word: borede
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The son of a schoolteacher mother and carpet-salesman-turned-artist father, Grant graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English. After a stint in repertory ("I was bored playing the tree that waved in the wind and the fourth angry peasant"), he wrote and performed in satirical revues...
But despite the numerous problems that burden the core--over-crowded sections, unchallenging course material, underqualified TFs and bored students--Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles says he will not reexamine it anytime soon.
The result is that techies in large numbers -- engineers who lost jobs at the superconducting supercollider, doctoral students bored with their computer-science dissertations -- are heading for Wall Street. Says Diller: "The people who study science but are not themselves weirdos -- a small subset, people who can adapt to the...
The legalization of a few gambling sites in Massachusetts makes economic sense. Because it limits gambling to specially-approved sites, thus avoiding the Las Vegas spectre of slot machines in laundromats, any negative impact will be limited. Gambling will give brilliant Harvard math majors a chance to practice card-counting...
We simply are not led to believe that Charles is so enchanted by a woman who looks at him with expressions that alternate between bored and blase. When Carrie arrives at Wedding Number Two childishly brandishing her wealthy, doddering fiance, Hamish, like a new toy, we wonder why Charles doesn...