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...asked if I had any questions about Harvard,” she said. Hutchinson stressed the role of the NAHC on campus. Although she hadn’t considered Harvard’s Native American community as the biggest factor in her ultimate choice, its presence has been a comfort. “It’s really nice to know that there’s a place on campus you can go with any kind of concern,” she said...
...generous heart. For all the opprobrium heaped last week by Diana's admirers on the chilly Windsors, she would have been invisible without them. The lonely youngest daughter of divorced parents, she translated her own pain not into bitterness and withdrawal but into a genuine desire to comfort the suffering of others--people afflicted with AIDS and leprosy and breast cancer, the mutilated victims of land mines. She could have done far worse with her fortune and acquired fame...
...ALWAYS A SMALL MEASURE OF comfort for most foreign civilians in Iraq that no matter how bad things got they could be pretty sure to find a way out. Not anymore. The major arteries leading to Iraq's borders, once clogged with U.S.-made SUVs carrying journalists and diplomats and aid workers, are now no-go areas patrolled by insurgents eager to kidnap or kill any foreigner they come across. The safest exit strategy is to catch a flight out of Baghdad's international airport and trust that the pilot can dodge the rockets that rebels sometimes fire at planes...
...biggest (and most controversial) idea in Lloyd’s book may be his take on why the world is so complex. Admittedly more a metaphysical musing than hard science, Lloyd takes comfort in the idea that coherent information creates more coherent information and that our universe was programmed for order. Lloyd sees life and evolutionary complexity as almost deterministically guaranteed...
...Reading Room on the main level. Beth S. Brainard, director of communcations for Harvard College Library, said the recommendations for a social yet studious atmosphere were consistent with the kind of space Lamont had wanted to offer. Cline agreed. “If you’re looking for comfort [while] having to be miserable studying, you might as well be with your friends,” she said. Cline added that the cafe is not meant to replace House dining hall meals, nor to compete with the Barker Center across the street. She also said she hoped teaching fellows...