Word: centralizes
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...agree with the younger Mallory in his reluctance to have the hunt for the "true" first summit become so central a component of Everest lore. It's understandable that modern climbers are curious about the men who tried to reach the top of the tallest mountain in nothing but tweeds and spiked shoes with only the most basic oxygen containers to help them, but to emphasize the success or failure of Mallory's expedition is to deflect the focus from what he has been most remembered for over the last several decades...
...Sleep until noon, have a great brunch and get a jingle from my sons saying, 'Love ya, Ma.' Take a long walk in Central Park and see a movie with the man in my life for the last 30 years. Snooze off later, counting myself among the luckiest Moms in the world, and dream that every mother everywhere had the chance to enjoy the same kind...
...Prof. Harrington s introduction of a cultural context might, it seems, be usefully applied to the discussion of RSIs at Harvard. One of the central RSI mysteries is its reputation as a strictly Harvard problem. Last year, even as the least fatalistic Harvard undergraduates began to resign themselves to the inevitability of voice-activation software and scribes (a combination of high-tech wizardry and ancient luxury that did have a certain appeal), it was hard to ignore the fact that our long-distance boyfriends and high school roommates and co-salutatorians attending other similarly stressful and high-powered colleges...
ESPP concentrator Michael J. Rest '00 says he disapproves of the University's decision to discontinue the seminar because he saw the class as a central part of the concentration. The biodiversity seminar, he says, was primarily responsible for his understanding of the complicated and many-faceted nature of the concentration...
...This is so open-ended that it allows NATO to say it's brought the Russians on board behind its demands, while the Russians can say they've won enough concessions from NATO to cut a deal acceptable to Milosevic," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. The key sticking point to a peace deal -- as at the Rambouillet talks in February -- has been the scope and nature of an international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, and Thursday's accord in Bonn is vague enough on that issue to be sold to both sides. Fudging the contentious issues, of course, allows...