Word: existences
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explanation provided to me by many individuals engaged in the class gift is, "Are you surprised whose names are circled and crossed off?" The implication in this response is that the class has been stratified all along and the class gift just recognizes that reality. Unfortunately such divisions exist; it is even more regrettable that Harvard strengthens this stratification with a formalized process during the spring of senior year...
...motorists died in the collapse of the Schoharie Creek bridge on the New York Thruway in April 1987, concern about America's decaying infrastructure turned urgent. Last week a report by the National Transportation Safety Board cited inadequate maintenance on the bridge and warned that similar conditions could exist nationwide. "We know there are 43,000 bridges around the country that have not been inspected even in the last two years," said Chairman James Burnett. Four more Schoharie-type bridges in Virginia and New York have collapsed in the past year...
...most Americans, prisons exist to hide and contain crime and as such, they are easily and best forgotten. But for a small number of volunteers--including the dozen or so Harvard students who tutor every Monday night in the Suffolk Country House of Correction at Deer Island--prisons are an extension of the lecture hall. Here, tutor and tutee meet in an atmosphere of mutual curiosity to explore and learn from each other. Establishment confronts outlaw, and sometimes both profit...
Despite the apparent shunting aside of Ligachev, few Soviet experts believe that a fundamental or far-reaching power struggle is under way. Peter Danylow, an analyst of East-West affairs in Bonn, argues that a basic policy consensus must exist. The reason: it would otherwise be hard to imagine the Soviet leadership approving the agreement to withdraw forces from Afghanistan...
Though she says she sometimes feels her "nature" would be "happier doing something less open to continue change," Hunt adds, "the function of the actor is really to exist on uncertainty." Because it is uncertainty that is at the heart of creativity...