Word: certain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delivery person, pretty much knowwho got in [to grad school] and who didn't," shesays. "You can also see certain patterns--likewhich guys in the House have girlfriends...
...other pop band. My theory is that International Velvet got to three the same way that Sartre won the Nobel Prize for Literature--because somebody had to. It (either the album or Sartre) is not something you want to take to a desert island with you. Unless you are certain that you are going to die soon, and want some happy dump music to keep your spirits up for your last couple of days...
...difficult and rewarding plays in history to a large student audience, and they succeeded in demonstrating that Sanders really is (except for those darn acoustics) suitable for Shakespeare. If the production, as Norton wrote of the actor who played Hamlet in '56 (the amusingly named Colgate Salsbury '57), had certain marked defects, it also "manage[d] to do certain difficult things remarkably well." Like staging Hamlet in Sanders, for the masses, in the first place--and succeeding...
...even when you've got support from your teaching staff, be able to cultivate exotic but plausible excuses for all contingencies. A suitable coded reference to "game five, six and seven, if necessary," might be on the order of "I'll know for certain by Friday whether the virus has responded to antibiotics...
...every stage of their careers here, students are encouraged to take ethically ambiguous steps to obtain whatever scarce resources Harvard has to offer. We have in many ways created for ourselves a culture that tolerates certain classes of amorality. Harvard's official selection processes are a joke--lotteries and sectioning forms are of questionable fairness and regrettable bureaucracy. You deserve your place among the elect, but the system just is not set up to recognize your virtues. So on the one hand, there is nothing wrong with a little flexibility in describing your qualifications, so long...