Word: certain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while readers of younger, more "hip" weeklies often skim pages and are drawn in by fancy pages designs, readers of The New Republic approach each issue with a certain patience and thoroughness. According to demographic surveys, readers on average spend more than an hour on each issue, often referring to the same issue multiple times...
...Republic, with all its twists and turns and mistakes, is still The New Republic," says Lane. "The hallmark of a TNR article is a certain skeptical and independent interpretation...
...senior survey--ingeniously required of all seniors, because they must turn in their copy in order to receive Commencement tickets--disaggregates this experience to a certain extent. I found myself rating very highly such features of the undergraduate experience as House life, the resources of the Office of Career Services, the panoply of extracurricular offerings and, most importantly, the quality of friendships formed and kept. Yet when it came to the one category in which Harvard as an institution is judged alone--namely, the administration's responsiveness to student concerns and its attentiveness to student input--I found myself giving...
...book to describe what it is. Nor is there a formula. But it exists. And we will find it, even if we do so by induction. It might be a many and not a one. But we are as many as we are one. One thing is for certain: it rests at a place where many different descriptions of it simply won't do. But it's there. In Honolulu and in Juneau. It's not so much the name of it or its particulars: it is what we make it, and we make it the same, with a difference...
When asked to explain his wild versatility, Richard Gill jokes that one must have "a certain limited intelligence to try so many things...