Word: bulks
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...says that great strides have been made to level the playing field for women in the sciences, but the bulk of that work was focused on removing structural barriers. And now the hardest part—eliminating the obstacles caused by the culture and environment of the sciences—remains, he adds...
...bulk of the war passed while students were away, cementing the intellectual absence that for many had long preceded it. In some sense, the isolation students felt during spring break symbolized the futility and helplessness many experienced all year. War was long preached as an eventuality, and students only half-listened as rhetoric that first emphasized “regime change” shifted, only semantically, to a more benign emphasis on disarming Iraq and liberating its people. For those not silenced by challenges to their patriotism—less compelling on a Harvard campus that exiled ROTC almost...
Given these pedagogically bankrupt bits of filler that constituted the bulk of our time here, it actually seems fitting—even predictable—that most of us are at a loss for overarching take-home messages. Perhaps, in this way, Harvard is a fitting introduction to the real world, which (I’m told) plays like anything but a conventional screenplay. In last year’s Spike Jonze film, Adaptation, Nicolas Cage plays a writer who is all too aware of this. In trying to adapt Susan Orlean’s book The Orchard Thief into...
...schools, Wall Street firms, etc.) are professional procrastinators. Problem sets are rarely finished with more than an hour or two to spare, papers are always started the night (or morning) before, and website contributions for section are always written extemporaneously. I even know a few seniors who wrote the bulk (40-50 pages) of their respective theses—their alledgedly year-long, “capstone” experiences—in the span of a week and a half before the departmental deadlines. Heck, the parting shot you are reading right now was finished...
...husband’s career again required a relocation, and the family moved to Minnesota, where Hively has spent the bulk of her life ever since...