Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another bright spot was the discovery of an element of basketball that had previously seemed esoteric: the rebound. Harvard boxed out and underneath and grabbed a respectable 35 rebounds, compared to 37 for Brown, a significantly taller team...
Student satisfaction with the present lottery, as measured by the Undergraduate Council poll, is only one element in the debate over assignment of Houses. It will not decide the fundamental issue--the telos of the Harvard undergraduate housing system. I believe this system should serve all three ends: to fairly distribute House assignments, to add to our educational experience, and to promote general happiness. To what extent each goal is to be promoted should be decided in informed debate. It might clear up some of the confused arguments being put forward if we could all recognize the central issue...
...stands a myth. The author, it seems., cannot get beyond seeing Arbus as a person who liked gutsy challenges and reveal her as someone unable to face reality. Thirteen years after her death the myth of Diane Aubus has ripened. The portray presented here tries to accomodate the fantastic element, to take the mythic status as a given and larch on to descriptions that pander to it. The result is that the public must still await a sensitive treatment of the troubled yet enigmatic person behind the lens...
...breath, on the spirit, was a world tradition that preceded the invention of the printing press. Words are separated from speech when printed on the page. They lose their body, their breath because with the written word it is just the eye to the page, bypassing the physical element...
...cases. "Here the jury distinguished between a mistake and a lie. Most juries have not been able to do that, and consequently we have had a 75% reversal rate (of verdicts for the plaintiff) on appeal." The Washington Post editorialized: "The procedural technique of having a jury decide each element of the suit separately can help ensure that the difficult standard for libel claims set by the Supreme Court...