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...Attacked the argument that divestment could wreak havoc on income form Harvard's $2.324 billion endowment, some of which goes for financial aid.. "if students at Harvard want to get their aid on the prerogroty is like a doughnut-it has a hole in it," the Baptist minister said...
...character and circumstances of student and instructor. While I would never do all my grading in Tommy's, and in fact do most in my office which is directly across the street from this "greasy spoon", I see nothing wrong with taking some time there for a coffee and doughnut, or with bringing my work with me. I cannot speak for "Harvard Parent," but I find the enforced isolation of any office rather forbidding at times, especially when the rows of books in front of me remind me of the thesis which I have put aside while I fulfill...
...whom, like the sole good athlete on a last-place team, had been allowed an astonishing amount of latitude over the years. At a time when a Memphis radio station was infuriating a bloated local boy, Elvis Presley, with a weight-mocking song called Just One More Jelly Doughnut, whose background refrain went, "He's gonna pop!" a Press-Scimitar columnist was actually begging in the paper for Elvis to give him a Cadillac. The singer was not moved...
Author Hildesheimer wastes no time telling us that he is the sort of fellow more interested in the hole than the doughnut. "Our task," he states, "is to blot out existing ideas, but not to mediate between Mozart and the reader. On the contrary, the intention of this study is to make the distance between both sides even greater . . . between Mozart's inner life and our inadequate conception of its nature and dimension...
...name for bread and butter. In addition to the traditional, or plain, variety, which usually sells for about 800, devotees can buy $2.50-plus croissants stuffed with everything from fruit preserves to ham, cheese and even beef bourguignon. "I was just looking for a cup of coffee and a doughnut, but I ended up with coffee and an apple croissant," said Stephen Fudge, a Canadian tourist in San Francisco. Added his enthusiastic companion, Susan Wood: "I'd take a chocolate croissant over a Big Mac any time...