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...comments can descend into personal attacks...
Although it might be rude to point out, language is not a sacred entity. The French language did not descend from the heavens in its present incarnation. As Steven Pinker, a professor at M.I.T., explained in his New Republic article entitled "Grammar Puss," language is a continually evolving conglomeration of sounds and symbols inherited and assimilated from countless cultures...
Such an emphasis on physical education clearly does not mean that 6400 students must descend on the Charles every morning for a 10-mile jog to the beat of cadences. Instead, students should be required to spend at least half their time at Harvard doing some sort of approved sport or physical activity of their own choosing...
What would descend from the chilly stratosphere was not jolly Saint Nick (who doesn't visit our house anyway), but a vision of a Thanksgiving lunar eclipse the likes of which had not been witnessed so clearly by North American inhabitants for nearly 11 years...
...search of such surprises that more visitors are likely to descend on the Louvre. Already, attendance has risen from 3 million in 1988 to 5 million in 1992. Now that it has been transformed from a dark and dowdy cavern to a bright and logical showcase, millions more are expected...