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...that the council fee is not. It was, in fact, one of the victories of my generation of students to be able to be able to control some of the allocation of its own money; now that my generation is in charge, today's students should not cede this freedom back to the University administration! Of course, it goes without saying that the University will not simply hand over money to the council to distribute as it wishes, giving students no choice as to whether to buy into this process and the University no right to oversee it. No student...
...chair on the stage in the packed and jubilant Crystal City High School gym, the scene of his earliest hoop glory, he's listening to old friends extol his essential goodness, but he's looking bored and distracted one minute, uncomfortable the next: it's hard for him to cede control of his own story. A black Little League teammate reminisces about the 11-year-old Bradley threatening to call the mayor of Joplin, Mo., if a local hotel didn't rent the black kid a room, and the 56-year-old Bradley chews his lip and looks...
According to Tyler E. Chapman '90, a Boston attorney and trustee of the Lampoon, Harvard offered "a very reasonable" counter-proposal: the Lampoon would forever cede its rights to both "The Harvard Lampoon" and "The Lampoon" to the University, in exchange for a pledge from the school never to charge the organization for the use of the name...
With the final deal, Radcliffe has now agreed to cede its undergraduate programming to Lewis' office. Lewis will assess the effects of the new arrangement on traditionally Radcliffe-sponsored programs in the coming months...
...human tragedy in nature's liminal spaces, where no quarter is asked and none given by protagonist, nature or narrator. It is this equanimity of Proulx which, together with her remarkable and idiosyncratic eye for texture, makes her stories so compelling. Throwing harsh light, she does not appear to cede sympathy; but it is true that there exists, in her strongest work, a kind of vast and vague mourning call, a deep, sighing identification...