Word: decentered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Nice to meet you: I am a sociable, competent Harvard student, certainly adept at multitasking, and I get pretty decent grades. I write a fair bit, and I think I’m pretty good at it, and I’m working on a novel that may be turned into a screenplay. Of course, I’m getting some help with it—I am very busy, and ultimately this stuff has to sell. Which brings me to my next point: After this, I want to be an investment banker...
...Bush was flanked by Snow and outgoing Press Secretary Scott McClellan, who was grinning broadly. The President called him "a decent and talented man," and said, "I will always be grateful to him. I will always be proud to call him 'friend...
...upped by the recent increase in Ivy players making the pros.Former teammate Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05 is entering his sophomore season with the St. Louis Rams after his seventh-round selection in last year’s draft, and this year three Ancient Eight players have a decent shot at joining him.All are expecting 6’5 315-pound Kevin Boothe of Cornell to go early; he is ranked as high as seventh by the pundits at offensive guard.“[He] will be drafted, that’s very clear from the feedback...
...Kaavya Viswanathan is a decent, serious, and incredibly hard-working writer and student, and I am confident that we will learn that any similarities in phrasings were unintentional,” said Michael Pietsch ’78, the senior vice president and publisher of Little, Brown, on Monday...
...Harvard students are the winners of the 90s. Perched atop the American meritocracy, we are supported by good families, decent educations, and above all, futures. Yet I sense a kind of spiritual aching for something more, some transcendence that people currently attempt to stuff with work, achievement, or wealth. Fitzgerald knew of these pangs firsthand. To the end of his days he flirted searchingly with his Catholic faith and clung to a cloying obsession with the way others perceived...