Word: comforting
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...likelier to be accepted than those who are applying for the first time.These limits are particularly problematic in light of the consensus on the advantages of the program.The small, engaging seminars are intended to offer a strong environment for learning that encourages students to experiment beyond their traditional academic comfort zones.The unique format of the freshman seminar grants both instructors and students an opportunity to concentrate entirely on learning and experimenting within a focused subject field.Lori B. Harrison-Kahan, a freshman seminar instructor and History and Literature lecturer, said the nature of the program “transforms the dynamics...
Congress is set to reconvene this week for the final vote of 2008, and it's no surprise, given the state of the economy, that they will be voting on yet another bailout, this time of the Big Three American automakers. It is, perhaps, cold comfort to the more than half of Americans who oppose the move that the funds will not be drawn from new debt but rather from existing dollars appropriated earlier this year in the energy bill. This is the same modernization fund the automakers were banking on to get them from SUV-land to Hybrid-world...
...serious. DFA artist Hercules and Love Affair, one of the forerunners of this new set of innovators, is another exemplar of this new, layered dance music. Their eponymously titled debut album has met with both critical and limited commercial acclaim. It is clear then that people are more comfortable with the intersection of divergent styles than ever before, if signaled by nothing else than the sizable crowd for Girl Talk this past weekend at notoriously conservative Harvard. Given this comfort, the question now is how to move past the novelty of mashing up Mariah Carey and James Taylor, avoid another...
When we were doing The Andy Griffith Show in the '60s, Andy used to say, "There's no town that looks and sounds like Mayberry; this is the Mayberry of my childhood in the '40s." I think there is comfort in looking back and reminding yourself that other people were on journeys before us with ups and downs and made it through...
...different place. So they do, and they find New Cheese. The humans are more resistant to change. Hem, the tale's dunderhead, indignantly bellows, "Who moved my cheese?" and refuses to accept reality. Haw too is initially resistant but comes to understand that he has to leave his comfort zone to survive and thrive. Voilà! New Cheese awaits...