Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entire celebration itself is centered around the convocations of Harvard faculty, students and alumni. "They will be like Commencement except with more banners," Sanders says...
First lesson, pressure for governing bodies that reflect the diversity of the people your organization serves. For 350 years Harvard has had only white, gentile men run its University, except for two white, male Jews who have served on the seven-man governing corporation...
...underpaid (and, in more than one case, unintelligent) graduate and undergraduate section leaders, who rarely give much time or thought to grading papers and exams. A recent 11-page paper I wrote for Albert Craig and Henry Rosovsky's course on Japan was returned weeks later with no comments except this one line at the end: "You did a good job with a complex topic." Because our section leader spoke little English, I and other students in the section found ourselves forced to simplify our language and arguments to avoid confusing our grader...
...random; the coursecatalog, posters announcing speeches and events,and assigned rooming groups freshman year wereamong Harvard's provision of organizedopportunity. But no one could influence whoultimately became our confidants, what we saw inthe city, or where our bodies decided to take ourminds. Nothing can define our experiences atHarvard except the lives which will become ours.For now, it is almost excessive to try to assesswhy we came, and why we came to what...
...virtuous vacation, refulgence not indulgence, is the new favorite of the fitness-minded. "Three or four years ago, I don't think I booked a spa except La Costa," notes Selma Weiner, owner of a travel agency in New York City. "Then suddenly it was Rancho La Puerta, Palm-Aire and Canyon Ranch." About 5 million people now sign up each year, says Edward Safdie, a spa developer. That is up phenomenally from 400,000 five years ago, and Safdie projects 30 million guests annually in five to ten years. To handle the growing popularity, spas are sprouting across...