Word: exactions
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...famous brick. Somewhere in that classic landscape, our thoughts and experiences overlap. It’s the impression I’ve now made of Harvard, more than any property intrinsic to this institution that I’m beginning to cherish. It’s not the exact image of the tourists, the media, my professors, or even other students, but it’s an image nonetheless, folded into a series of alternate, but equally meaningful impressions. And it’s one that I’ve grown to love...
...draw families back into the schools. Sybil Knight, the principal of the system’s only high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, summed up the feelings of most participants toward the end, saying, “We don’t need an exact number to tell us about declining enrollment. The numbers are down and we’ve got to do something about it.”—Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
...British author took his time writing this book: 30 years, to be exact. Norton's executive editor, who championed the novel at BookExpo, described it as a "throwback to great Victorian page-turning storytelling," It leads through opium dens, brothels and London alleys, while untying the tangled inheritance of an English baron. The publisher threw a huge, glamorous luncheon for Cox recently at the Biltmore Room in Chelsea, where there are more mirrors than at Versailles. There are high hopes for this big, thick historical novel...
...needed to do to draw families back into the schools.Sybil Knight, the principal of the system’s only high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, summed up the feelings of most participants toward the end, saying, “We don’t need an exact number to tell us about declining enrollment. The numbers are down and we’ve got to do something about it.—Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
...flash emerged as Costello, projector clicker at the ready, was explaining the Budget to sequestered reporters on May 9. Searching for a word to sum up the changes to superannuation, he thought for a few beats, then settled on "radical." It was Costello looking down the time tunnel; the exact image of the landscape and people out there in 2040 was elusive, but he seemed happy with the shape of the outcome. The moment passed and the Treasurer went back to the script. But radical was a description Costello was burdened with-or guided by-for two decades. His choice...