Word: core
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...like the greatest movements of the past," says Tolkan. With health care, Iraq and the economy all jostling for voters' attention, it remains to be seen whether climate change - still an amorphous threat to most Americans - can seize center stage, but Washington should know that there is a growing core of young activists out there who care about nothing more. "This past weekend, we gave politicians a bit of a heads up that we're watching and we're demanding change," says Katelyn McCormick, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. "We've said what...
...studies concentrator in Winthrop House. He is chair of the College Events Board and a member of the Senior Class Committee. He is a former member of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee, the UC Executive Board, the Committee on House Life, the Standing Committee on the Core, the Harvard-Yale Tailgate Committee, the Advising Programs Office Student Advisory Board, and the Harvard University Dining Services Student Advisory Committee. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...thunderous applause from the audience. The most common error made by student writers is addressing the wrong audience, Pinker said. Writers must act as better intuitive psychologists in order to anticipate readers’ mental processes, he explained. “Considering the audience is at the core of writing,” said Gregory A. Harris, preceptor in expository writing and last year’s editor of “Exposé.” After immersing themselves in research and academia, writers often assume that readers understand the jargon and conventions of specialists, Pinker said...
...possibilities are endless for the Harvard women’s basketball team in the 2007-2008 season. With a core of veterans, talented freshmen, and a steadfast coach, the Crimson will know no bounds this year. Harvard begins its title defense Saturday with its first game of the season on the road against James Madison. Last year, Harvard managed to turn around what began as an abysmal season. The Crimson lost its first six games of non-conference play and everyone believed all hope was lost for a team that began with such high hopes. But things began to turn...
...debate seemed a signpost: the beginning of the real campaign after more than a year of fund-raising and inside baseball. And her performance seemed a crystallization of the problems that have always plagued Clinton, the notion that she is perpetually calculating, triangulating and cold, without core convictions. On the other hand, in several dozen interviews over a weekend in Iowa, I simply couldn't find anyone who had actually seen the debate - not even among the political junkies who attend her meetings. Clinton's public demeanor at these rallies suggested that she had taken the punch and moved...