Word: existing
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That, of course, does not mean apartheid will then cease to exist. The legal structure built up over more than 40 years cannot be demolished quite that quickly, and provincial and local governments have ways of maintaining segregation even when it is no longer required by federal law, for example, turning swimming pools over to private operators or charging fees for the use of libraries that whites can afford and most blacks cannot...
Although there is no dearth of dance programs in Harvard's extra-curricular life, many students do not feel fairly treated in the programs which do exist, while others complain of the poor conditions under which they work. "For a university like Harvard, with the resources it has," said Anna Eberhardt '92, a student enrolled in the Radcliffe Dance Program, "not to have adequate space and a good floor is pitiful...
...taken undergraduate-level classes only, many of them guts or courses whose material overlaps with other classes they have taken, any more deserving of the "honors" appellation than a non-thesis student who has taken graduate seminars and arduous conference courses? We all know that large disparities of difficulty exist among Faculty of Arts and Sciences classes. If I took Moral Reasoning with Professor Stanley H. "No Class Is Good Without 1000 Pages Per Week" Hoffmann but decide not to write a thesis, should I be less "honored" than the thesis writer who took "Jesus and the Easy Life" instead...
...literary format takes shape -- pilgrims, a long walk, a tale to while away the distance -- the elderly Alessandro rattles on owlishly. "Tell me," he says, "what kind of feet do you have?" Nicolo is confused. "I have human feet, Signore." Alessandro lectures: "Of course, but two kinds of feet exist . . . Feet of despair are too tender, and can't fight back . . . On the other hand, if I may, are the feet of invincibility...
...thinking about other ways you might achieve time travel." Gott's idea is simpler than Thorne's. No black holes, no wormholes -- just a spaceship traveling at near light speed, and a peculiar object called a cosmic string. Like wormholes, cosmic strings may or may not exist; they are at present just theoretical constructs...