Word: contact
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Costello said he followed Reid out of Mather Tower, maintaining contact on his cell phone with police officers...
...high school, Peter—class valedictorian, an Eagle Scout and a National Merit Scholar—always rose to the top. Now, without any plans for next year, his steady string of rejections has taken a visible toll. He slouches in the booth. He avoids eye contact. His speech is self-effacing and marked with anger directed toward his more successful peers. “Around all these ambitious people, you need to have a job or you’re considered worthless,” he says as he places his soup firmly back on the table...
...most of our interview, Horan is poised. Her eye contact is dead-on, her sentences follow a measured rhythm and her hands are crossed in her lap—she acts like she is at a job interview rather than sitting on an old futon. It is not until she discusses her first rejection at Harvard—in this case, not achieving her desired grade—that she stumbles over her words. “It was so frustrating,” she says. “In high school it was never a question of understanding...
...have not earned a spot in The Opportunes—a task he dreads. Each fall, 90-110 students apply for roughly four openings in the group. During the first three nights of auditions, lists of students advancing to the next round are posted on the Internet, minimizing personal contact and making the process “pretty painless” for Goonan. But once the field has been significantly narrowed, phone calls must be made and hopes have to be shattered. “I mostly try to let them down easy,” he says...
First, at least three Houses are needed in Allston to provide the minimum number of students necessary to establish a community. Anything less and Harvard would effectively banish undergraduates to three years of little contact with the rest of the College...