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Some accuse Pescatore, a graduate of Penn, of underestimating the importance of preserving the H-Y Regatta. According to one rower, Yale’s Athletic Director has been pulling for the heavyweights to attend IRAs for many years, but the old coach was unwilling to diminish the H-Y tradition. Now that a new guard is in, the times they are a’changin...
...curricular review—stirred in part by Summers’ stated desire to “assure that the academic experience is at the center of the college experience”—could create new artistic opportunities in the classroom, but College administrators fear this might diminish opportunities for more amateur participation in the arts. And given the University’s longstanding discomfort with the role of the arts in an academic curriculum, many in the arts community worry that Summers will not prioritize its interests...
...weeks before being crushed. Though Ararat is actually 200 km from Van, the mountain periodically "drifts" onto the fictional set. Poetic license, as Saroyan claims, or distortion? "There are many stories in the film that are being borne by tellers who are unreliable," says Egoyan, "but that doesn't diminish the need to tell it." The film's complex structure is not exactly audience-friendly, but Egoyan is unapologetic. "If something is complex, it just needs to be read more carefully," he says. "I don't agree with this tendency to make films for the lowest common denominator. I want...
Professors at Harvard expressed a hope that his interests would not diminish in their breadth...
...neoconservatives believe, is unique in its power and its principles. It cannot allow its mission to be tied down by international agreements that diminish its freedom of action. At the same time, neoconservatives insist that theirs is a generous and internationalist vision; other nations, other peoples, will willingly support U.S. policies--which, by definition, are good for them as well as Americans--if only those policies are clearly articulated and implemented with determination...