Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...content of the letter is also admirable. We agree fully with the ideals behind his statement that Harvard "take[s] great care not to view people simply as the sum of their grades and test scores.... We view applicants as individual human beings with a complex set of talents, qualities, interests, backgrounds and experiences." In order for Harvard to continue putting together a class composed not just of valedictorians or students of one race, it must sometimes go beyond the numbers to experiences. Having students of different backgrounds, races and interests at Harvard helps foster an environment where students...
ARCHITECTS GENERALLY ARE dour people. Since they're half professionals, half artists, neither side of them is ever entirely content. But Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch-born architect-prophet whom today's young architects most want to grow up to be, is smiling. He's thinking about the deep, vision-supporting pockets of his first American client, MCA-Universal, which has appointed him to oversee plans for most of a $3 billion expansion of Universal City in California. Why choose Koolhaas? "I think it's because of his grandfather," says Koolhaas of Edgar Bronfman Jr., grandson of the man who asked...
Heroes are driven by a sense of purpose, while clowns are content to simply be who they are, Wink said. Regular people are merely trying to avoid the unpleasantness of outside examination...
...that the race to be president will come down to who has the best thighs. In one sense, it's a nice change of pace; now the men have their turn at being Miss America. Now they too know what it is like to be judged not on the content of their character but the firmness of their flesh...
...interesting aspect of the debate, however, focused on whether or not it was morally right to vote against the creation of the newsgroup based solely on its content. What if white-power music hadbeen the hot topic of the moment? Would individuals who believe in the marketplace of ideas and freedom of speech have had the responsibility to vote for the creation of the group, despite the repugnance of its topic? The majority opinion seemed to be that Usenet was a public forum and therefore it would be censorship to vote against the white power group if it could prove...