Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to HSA General Manager Richard M. Olken '67, the construction workers were cutting the correct pipe when the leak occurred, but a Commonwealth Gas employee, sent to disconnect the building's gas before construction began in that area, had shut off the wrong valve...
...this description of the role of the university is accepted as correct--and I believe that the Convocation addresses of both Harvard and Radcliffe suggest its validity--then we, the students, must ask whether or not our school has served us appropriately. Regarding my own experience, I would answer this question with a qualified "yes." Harvard-Radcliffe has inspired, extended and challenged me. However, I feel that I owe my personal growth and expansion primarily to the later of the two colleges...
...konshi. We make quite a pair. She majored in English in college and speaks quite well. We've settled into this funny pattern in which she speaks to me in English, and I speak to her in Japanese. Although it sounds odd, it actually feels quite natural. We correct each other whenever necessary, and talk about all sorts of American and Japanese customs. I am sure people that hear us talking must think we are nuts...
...First Lady. And welfare has been cast off as the failed policy remnants of a prior era, all while selling out the poor and betraying several decades of Democratic principles. The biggest hope for Democratic initiative in the next four years is a jobs bill which would hopefully correct for some of the externalities of the newer, sleeker American economy...
Similarly, Choi's liberal education would "perfect the few best souls through intense study of the few great books." Such a soul "will not need others to correct or complement him.... He will not hold opinions but know truth." Furthermore, since "most of us see truth and goodness too dimly to rely wisely on our own judgment...we must learn to see from those who saw clearly." And where is this font of knowledge? In "the exceedingly difficult works of Plato and Aristotle...