Word: donee
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...arboretum is involved in several conservation projects, one of them collecting plants from rain forests in Southeat Asia before they disappear. This project, funded by a grant from the National Geographic Society, is being done with help with the Herbarium Bogoriense, the national herbarium of Indonesia, the Sarallka and National Museum of the Philippines, as well as herbariums in Thailand and Paupau New Guinea...
They lost the race for class marshal, they didn't even make class committee, and their busy, busy schedules have an extra hour a week they can devote to an impressive-sounding activity. Of course, it's all done for free, although that extra entry on the resume, something like, "Senior Gift fundraiser: ruthlessly solicited money from extremely unwilling classmates for the Greatest University in the World," is payment enough...
Duke certainly has enormous problems with racism and sexism. Perhaps reforming the housing system, which allows students freedom in deciding with whom they will live, would help. But, as Mr. Larew himself implies, surely segregation causes bigotry by fostering ignorance. Ironically, Mr. Larew has done what college students all over the country do all the time: he has made a judgment based on ignorance. In so doing, he and The Crimson, despite his protestations to the contrary, have tarred Duke University. This may be common and expedient journalism, but it's bad journalism. John Owen (Duke...
...would have imagined that the most offensive thing about President Bush would be something he has not done...
Walsh's order calls on the police chief to prepare a report "to detail on what is being done to curtail this practice and what plan he can enact to crack down and bring to an end this violation...