Word: canted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...were assignments for magazines and newspapers. They sent him to India to reminisce, to the Caribbean to cover political discontent or crime stories, to America to write about the Republican Convention of 1984, to Africa, South America, and elsewhere. What Naipaul brought to every assignment was his distrust of cant and his own strong opinions...
...stay in school, because they are properly grateful to have the chance to study here. Yet this student has chosen to leave Harvard practically as soon as he arrived, which says only that he was never serious about education to begin with. Maybe it is a refreshing absence of cant not to pay lip service to education, but this seems to me to be the least Harvard should expect from its applicants, even athletes recruited to play sports. In the meantime we have Jesse E. Lane’s brief achievements on the ice to salute: three games, one assist...
...band. I think a lot of the stuff we play is due to the shared experience there in the wee hours of the night. There is this spontaneous thing that other guests can think is rude, but well sometimes all just stop. Our eyes all glaze over, and we cant continue our conversations because an amazing thing just went on in the music...
There were bad things that happened, Colby says, but the kids to whom this did happen dont say so because theyre concerned about the good of the school. Its ironic, because Groton prides itself much more than Andover and Exeter about fostering a caring environment, but it cant know everything that goes on in dorms without being a police state...
...Private schools] are an easy target, Hamilton says. Colby adds, The New York Times article was unquestionably biased. Colby says that the problem is that the school is handicapped because the people involved were under 18 [and are protected by privacy laws]. It really cant defend itself. Its an undeserved black mark against the school...