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...first column considered ways in which theses can drive students to distraction and dismay. But romantic frustration can be just as tyrannical. As a resident tutor I heard countless complaints about dating at Harvard, both the difficulties of starting a relationship and the hardships of ending one. Students could lose days or even weeks to these gnawing problems...
...state records be answered within 10 days, the federally-funded presidential library does not have the manpower to even catalog the 1,800 boxes of gubernatorial records—let alone to respond to file requests—in such a brief period of time. Much to the dismay of Texas’ state archivist, who has the resources to handle the thousands of pages and has been one of the most vocal opponents of Bush’s scheme, the shortest notice the library can give petitioners is 90 days. And because it is a federal institution, it claims...
...confess his anguish over helping Hitler? The latter is what the play suggests. But last week Americans got a different version of the story, when unsent letters Bohr wrote Heisenberg were released. In them Bohr (who later fled to the U.S. and worked on the Manhattan Project) evinces dismay at Heisenberg's assertion during the meeting that Germany would soon have the bomb. "You...expressed your definite conviction that Germany would win and that it was therefore quite foolish for us to maintain the hope of a different outcome of the war," Bohr wrote. The letters don't entirely resolve...
...generation entered the world. Yet the Keatons were by no means a stereotypical yuppie family, let alone a typical sitcom family. The Keaton parents were hippies to the bone—Elyse a folk-singing flower girl and Steven a draft-dodging pacifist. To their dismay, they birthed four yuppies-to-be, led by one Alex P. Keaton, a card-carrying Young Republican with a blazer over his shoulder, a tie around his neck and a picture of William F. Buckley on his wall...
...into one sound.' It was pretty crude when we started." So crude that every major label took a pass. Things only got worse when Limp Bizkit, Korn and other fusion groups hit the charts with a similar musical formula. "We thought we had a new idea and, to our dismay, all these groups started breaking," recalls Delson. "We were almost, like, 'We've been beaten to the punch...