Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spend their weekends reading or conversing with other intellectuals. I find Harvard overflowing with a-dionysian exploits, such as office hours with exceptional professors and literally inexhaustible libraries. But assume that I am alone in this belief; perhaps there exist students for whom books are not their sole comfort...
Beyond failing in the eyes of the two victimsin its punitive responsibilities, the College,according to both women, made little effort tocounsel or comfort them after they were assaulted...
...away." But if that gift were your own blood, would you offer it up to save your town? King's first original mini-series script is a marathon of communal anxiety with a spooky moral: we are ready to mortgage our children for our own restless comfort...
...when the decision comes, both Harvard and Radcliffe should not continue to ignore those who it effects most--the students. Some students see Radcliffe as an oasis, a place of varied resources, comfort and community that they cannot find at Harvard...
...safe in Petra and Jaresh, and flock to the novelty of a secure Arab metropolis in Amman. King Hussein is especially beloved here for his emotional speech at the death of his friend and colleague Yitzhak Rabin and, in an occasion less well known outside Israel, his visit to comfort the families of seven Israeli schoolchildren killed by a Jordanian soldier. King Hussein joined the families on the floor, as is the traditional Jewish mourning custom. And today, it is Israel's turn to comfort their brethren in Jordan...