Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...proposal called for $200,000 of the proceeds to be donated to a charity chosen in cooperation with the “socially conscious artist” who played at the concert...
...budget of his new position are still ill defined. But by last Friday the White House was loading him down with briefing books and scouting office space in the West Wing. Before he can figure out how to beat terrorism, however, he'll have to take on the turf-conscious Cabinet Secretaries and bureaucrats of the 40-plus agencies that share antiterrorism responsibility, as well as their patrons on Capitol Hill. Bureaucracies have a long history of outlasting the "czars" who are brought in to oversee them. "I know a great number of these guys who were czars--energy, drugs...
...brother [Victor] because we had been through it all together”, he says. “He was very important for me, because we were really the only constants in our lives”. Although Victor tried to immerse himself totally in American culture, Edgar made a conscious effort to retain and display his Sierra Leonian heritage—by keeping his distinctive accent, for example, and playing soccer instead of basketball. Keeping in touch with his father was more difficult. “Dad was still in Sierra Leone, and I began to play scrabble...
Pretty much the first thing that happened to me at Harvard was getting rejected. Like most freshmen, I applied for freshman seminars. Three professors interviewed me for a combined ten minutes, and I wrote agonizingly self-conscious answers in the blank spaces of the questionnaire. Then, on the allotted day, I walked up to the second floor of 8 Prescott St. and looked for my name on the alphabetized lists of those fortunate few who got in. Like the vast majority of applicants, my name was not on the lists. For some, rejection starts before arrival on campus: Each year...
...We’re preparing for delayed reactions,” Kadison says. “A lot of times, reactions are not conscious. Priorities change, concentration drops, and moods go up and down. I would expect some students to find themselves at 70-80 percent of normal in terms of concentration and motivation around midterms...