Word: cancellations
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Students going on the trip have expressed concern about Hezbollah’s rocket attacks in the region and are closely monitoring the news. But of yesterday evening none had decided to cancel their plans, according to Bernard Steinberg, Hillel’s executive director, and Jackie Granick ’08, who will be going on the trip...
This is not the first time that a Netivot trip has faced safety threats in Israel, and Hillel has had to cancel the trip before...
...Brain surgery is a license for self-indulgence. Cancel that dentist's appointment; you've suffered enough. (Though technically, before you go under, you haven't actually suffered at all.) Take out the trash? "C'mon, honey, I've got BRAIN SURGERY next week." Writers devote a lot of creative energy to dreaming up reasons not to write. One of the all-time best came recently from Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, who told her readers that she was going to stop writing the column for a while because her husband had become Defense Minister of Poland...
Brain surgery is a license for self-indulgence. Cancel that dentist's appointment; you've suffered enough. (Though technically, before you go under, you haven't actually suffered at all.) Take out the trash? "C'mon, honey, I've got BRAIN SURGERY next week." Writers devote a lot of creative energy to dreaming up reasons not to write. One of the all-time best came recently from Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, who told her readers that she was going to stop writing the column for a while because her husband had become Defense Minister of Poland...
...greatest success sprung from the year’s greatest failure, Wyclef. The Harvard Concert Commission (HCC), a semi-autonomous wing of the UC, had planned to bring Wyclef Jean to perform on campus during the first week of November, but sluggish ticket sales compelled the HCC to cancel the show less than a week before it was scheduled. By backing out, the UC lost $30,000 in fees, but it would likely have lost three times that had it not cancelled.After this year’s debacle and last spring’s failed spring concert, the UC finally...