Word: commiting
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...Crimson Women's Tennis Team is composed of a group of women who compete intercollegiately and hold weekly practices but lack the time to commit to varsity or junior varsity tennis at Harvard. Last winter, Oreskovich and seniors Karinne Jervis and Supinda Bunyavanich got together and formed the team with the hope of eventually organizing matches against other colleges...
...Gordon Harvey, the assistant director of Expository Writing, points out, "The 'he' construction nowadays...suddenly calls attention to the writing and the writer. Unfortunately, many of the proposed alternative constructions...also stick out." For example, writers commit stylistic suicide if they repeatedly use the clunky "he or she" ("If anyone wants to, he or she can pick up his or her paper after lecture") or the dull, formal "one" ("If anyone wants to, one can pick up one's paper...
...need to get people who come out of law school and business school and the mainstream business of making money, to commit themselves to public service," he said...
Kerry opened by discussing the recent movie Saving Private Ryan,which he used as an illustration of "citizen/soldiers," people he said who are willing to commit themselves to civil service...
Nowhere, for example, is there any significant discussion of King's tense relationships with John and Robert Kennedy. Nor is there a real discussion of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's sustained campaign against King, which ranged from wiretapping and character assassination to an attempt to induce him to commit suicide. The book does provide an easily digested compendium of King's eloquent speeches that may entice readers to learn more about his legacy. But as an autobiography, it is a mere imitation of life...