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Here, D’Souza says she is eager to share her love for the microscopic with students. She dreams of building her intellectual army of “people trying to understand the smallest level in the human body,” D’Souza says...
...It’s a challenge for us to really figure out how to communicate effectively with students,” she says.Yet once something as enticing as a free Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra or Dunster House Opera ticket is dangled in front of students, many seem eager to reap the benefits. Hussey chuckles as he tells how eager students often worriedly question the Financial Aid Office when they haven’t been told of their renewed eligibility status. “It’s clear that returning students take advantage of it each year,” says...
Although I am not eager to learn the dark secrets of my friends and family, I’d still like a bit more truthfulness in holiday newsletters. Lying may seem like a good option in some circumstances, but it destroys any usefulness that the newsletter might have for other people. Unable to determine what is true, we are left with a summary of fanciful wishes how the year should have gone. But since the lying will likely never end, perhaps we could simply stop sending holiday newsletters. My mantle space would certainly be a lot freer, and I could...
...those who have grown weary of these wars will be grateful that this may be the last for a while. With the G.O.P. still in control of Congress these last few weeks, they were eager to bring this to a vote; the activists believe in the value of the issue, the strategists in the value of forcing Democrats to vote against proposals that large majorities of Americans support. In the new Congress, the Democrats' agenda does not include placing new restrictions on abortion or making women think harder before having one. But that just means the argument will be moving...
...reporting on the Republicans' loss of Congress took a look at what the triumph of moderates and pragmatists will mean for domestic and foreign policy. Many readers were eager to bid good riddance to scandals and a faltering war strategy, while others remained wary or skeptical of any bipartisan gain Re "Reaching for the center" [Nov. 20]: The American people used the power of the vote to boot the corrupt, ideologically blinkered, full-of-themselves Republicans out of their congressional majorities. Our Founding Fathers were skeptical of the notion that seemingly virtuous politicians would always govern wisely. The founders knew...