Word: excerpting
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...most likely thing that would happen is youmight print an excerpt of it mentioning it's anissue at Harvard," Schauer said. "I don't know ifit would be a good thing for us to take a positionor not, because as an alumni club we're not hereto joust with the school. The next president mightfeel differently...
...brains and character of only a handful of people stand out. One of them is a quiet, gray-haired woman named Jeanne Vertefeuille. Until now her role in tracking down Ames has never been reported, but many at the CIA call her the heroine of the investigation. The following excerpt from Nightmover, David Wise's new book about the Ames case, deals with Vertefeuille's story. "The CIA thought it had picked a minor leaguer, but she proved she was good enough for the majors," says Wise. "In the end, she got Ames...
...want to take the message to the press andelsewhere in the U.S. that they are welcome todiffer with us and do anything, excerpt lie,distort and misrepresent [What we say,]" Jardinesays. "The press cannot say just anything--that'snot freedom of the press...
...almost every chapter, an excerpt from a famous or important primary source is quoted. Sections of Havelock Ellis'Sexual Inversion, for example, explain the methods of the famed "sexologist." The unsettling passage from E.M. Forster's Maurice in which a troubled young man confesses his homosexuality to a dismissive, unsympathtic doctor sticks in the mind of the reader. While the use of primary sources in historical works is certainly not an original method, reading what intellectuals had to say about the gay experience of their era is invaluable to the reader's understanding...
...John B. Hayman, who works regularly as a panhandler in front of the Coop..." Excerpt from a news story on the harassment failed by Harvard Square's homeless population in yesterday's Crimson. The story went on to more that Hayman became homeless as a result of having his wallet stolen...