Word: demanding
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Harvard should not be expected to provide students with a general European History or poetry class, but should demand that its applicants and acceptees have had one. As a top university in the country, it should be attracting those students with a previous, high-school-provided general education. Therefore, students requesting broader classes in the Core Curriculum are presenting an argument indicative not of a shortcoming in the Core itself, but of a lowering in the standards of "pre-Harvard" education...
...then Tim is called back to his former office to be grilled and told something astonishing: Larry and his last KGB contact have somehow stolen some L37 million from the Russian government. His ex-bosses think the high-living Tim may have shared in the booty. They demand his passport and order him to talk to no one but them...
Asked whether expressions of demand from thecouncil--the elected representatives of thestudent body--was sufficient, Jewett says that the"U.C. is not the only voice of Harvard students...
...idea of a virtual grope is appealing for so many reasons, not the least of which is availability. Who wouldn't want to be able to make out on demand with Marilyn Monroe or your upstairs neighbor for that matter? Virtual sex would solve the perpetual problem of who to take home from a party. Who needs to settle for beer goggling when the man of your dreams in available electronically? A virtual man won't steal the covers for one thing...
Where individual residents do not demand actionfrom city officials, community groups may help tofill...