Word: effortful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...justice on a daily basis, precepts that are often philosophically opposed. He suffers everything that a normal man suffers - pangs of conscience, doubts in the human capacity for good, and the occasional urinary tract infection. (When he scrambles into the bathroom, doubled over and grimacing at the excruciating effort of relieving himself - well, the audience feels his pain.) Duncan, in his breakout role (after several supporting roles in films like Armageddon), succeeds in winning over the sympathies of the audience with an inspiring performance. John Coffey is a walking paradox - his monstrous frame is capable of flattening...
...Harvard are making a concerted effort to diversify the student body, the faculty and the curriculum," he says...
Tawny S. Ochoa '01, vice-president of RAZA, Harvard's Latino student group, also has mixed feelings. While she praised Harvard's attempt to bring a diverse group of students to campus, she feels the effort may not go far enough...
Ochoa also feels that there should be a stronger effort to recruit more Latino faculty...
...leaders are often Harvard's pride and those students most easily confused with intellectuals. They found groups, they take on massive projects, they organize and coordinate large student activities from the Hasty Pudding to Project HEALTH to the IOP. They work long hours, put in incredible amounts of effort and make important changes in the quality of life for Harvard students and the surrounding communities, but leadership alone does not make an intellectual. These leaders could enthusiastically talk you under the table with plans for new improvements and new programs but are just as unlikely to know why it matters...