Word: existance
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...loved ones may not be.“Clark Park,” the poem from which the collection gets its title, combines meditations on people with ones on places. Clark Park itself is filled with trees whose “trunks are solid,” ready to exist for many years. The people are fickle: “I know if you touched me / I could relax. / I went looking for you, angry / at myself for that.” As such, the emotions are complex and mercurial. However, the collection closes with the reconciliatory...
...Player gets away with murdering a screenwriter in a Los Angeles alley, the frazzled Hollywood exec absconds with Greta Scacchi into southern California's empty desert. There, in the candlelight of a cloistered getaway motel, Scacchi asks her homicidal flame, "Do places like this really exist...
...Admittedly, such a program should not have to exist. Quality workers should naturally rise to the top in any good organization. But that’s a magnificently long-term problem, and in the meantime the government still needs an influx of talented students in its ranks. When career bureaucrats dominate the cabinet roundtable, then advancement shortcuts will be obsolete. Until then, talented students will need to see a less murky path to success if they are to join the public sector...
...from departmental courses and the Core curriculum, with very few newly-designed courses made specifically to suit Gen Ed categories. Although the lack of brand new courses made some wonder about just how novel the new program is, others argued that natural overlaps between the Core and Gen Ed exist and should be taken into consideration. “Many courses already taught carry out some of the same objectives that Gen Ed aspires to, so I don’t think it is a defect to draw initially on some of these courses,” said History Professor...
...make way for the stem cell department is indicative of a “corporatization” of science that comes at the cost of basic research. Meselson questioned the University’s prioritization of stem cell research, a highly specialized field that, he speculated, may not exist in 100 years.Jim Henle, a lab administrator in Fairchild, said he wrote a letter to University President Drew G. Faust criticizing the administration’s decision to relocate the MCB facilities and asking the renowned historian to envision an analogous situation facing her own department.“What...