Word: choses
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Except the most important one By keeping the $2.5 million kitty for itself, Harvard is stabbing Stillman in the back. Stillman chose to donate the forest, a mountainous plot on the Hudson River which sports a reservoir and six ponds, to Harvard partially because he was fond of the University. But Stillman mostly chose Harvard because he thought he could trust the University to care for the land and provide the necessary stable environment for forestry and botany experiments. Now Harvard would pull out the money to keep the site in proper shape, and the consortium would have to already...
...same time, however, athletes will be free to chose between athletics, academics, or both. And colleges will not face the common ritual of bending rules and lowering academic standards to field the top 22 football players...
Axelrod said he was depressed for a variety of reasons and chose to use the microphone spontaneously. "I don't know which courses to take, the Din & Tonics told me to get lost... and Becky didn't call." Axelrod said of his existential diatribe...
...populous province, has alternated between the two parties. This time Mulroney picked up 67 out of 95 seats in Ontario and captured the Liberal stronghold of Quebec, winning 58 out of 75 seats (see box). To underscore his empathy for the French-speaking province, Mulroney, a Quebec native himself, chose to run for Parliament from his home constituency of Manicouagan. He won handily...
...Kremlin passed over more senior-ranking officers and chose Akhromeyev, Ogarkov's longtime deputy and a former tank commander, as his replacement. Like Ogarkov, the new Chief of Staff represents a younger generation of better-educated officers who, in the words of a Washington analyst, are "not frightened by computers and technology." U.S. Congressmen who met Akhromeyev in Moscow last year describe him as "a tough, hard-nosed, thoroughly professional officer, who was clearly the man in charge...