Word: existing
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...Roman history, but Bailey says he is especially interesting to study because he was a voluminous letter writer, and many of his letters have been preserved. Bailey has authored a comprehensive translation of Cicero's approximately nine hundred letters which still remain--it is likely that the letters which exist today are just a fraction of those that Cicero actually wrote...
...FIRST WORD in the feminist Women of the Ivy League magazine is "Playboy," and that says a lot about the mentality of its editors. Locked in a mindset that makes every encounter with men a confrontation, they exist only in opposition; by their own admission, their Women of the Ivy League is nothing but a pleading reaction to Playboy...
...That land was created--it didn't exist until Harvard built the over-pass," said Jacqueline O'Neill, Harvard's Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs. "We own it as much as we feel a responsibility for maintaining it and preserving it, but it's also public," she said. However, she insisted that the land was appropriate for a crossing-place but not for a garden...
...could prevail only in a time when there are few social penalties for destructively free behavior. The crime of murder carries demonstrably severe penalties, and so requires no continuous statement of community disapproval. But for the great range of social crimes, for everything from gossip to greed, no sanctions exist except those that a community informally may agree to impose: banishment, disgrace, curtailment of income. In the world these days, social crimes rarely are penalized and often are rewarded. Investment companies receive relatively small fines for major theft. Insider traders are glorified as clever. A best-selling writer plagiarizes another...
Harvard at its best is a community based not so much on democracy as meritocracy. What is great about this university, and what sadly is untrue about this country, is that equality of opportunity does exist here. It is up to us as individual members of this community to take advantage of our opportunity. Inviting the acknowledged leaders of the undergraduate population to these selective events celebrates not so much the individual achievements of the guests, but a community which provides us the unique opportunity to pursue the best in each...