Word: commentating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anti-Social Behavior" (Opinion, Nov. 4): I was struck by Jonathan Jacoby's comment "many at Harvard...are (mis)guided in their so called career pursuits by the primary intension of selfishly accumulating inordinate wealth." As I understand his somewhat polemical writing students at Harvard who are going through recruiting are at fault because they take jobs largely based on the financial rewards of their work...
...career KGB officer; that his father's name was Finkelstein or Kirschenblatt; that his current family name is actually a pseudonym, taken to mask his Jewish roots. The stories are plausible but unprovable. The one man who could confirm or deny them, Primakov himself, refuses to comment. As a longtime colleague puts it, you inquire about his private life at your own risk...
...commentary on the death of privacy and the growing difficulty of hiding personal peccadilloes, "Sin in the Global Village" [ESSAY, Oct. 19], Robert Wright says the prospect of constant surveillance is terrifying. Allow me the following comment: living in London, I have become exceedingly accustomed to constant surveillance, but who watches over those who watch us? PAUL VAN ZIJL London...
Admissions officials could not be reached for comment, but Sozinho said they have accounted for the drop by pointing to a higher number of black students deferring enrollment in this year's class...
...declined to respond to the audience member's accusation that her philosophy was "racial-centric," a comment that drew murmurs of disagreement from the crowd...