Word: explained
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...cannot be countered by rationalization,” flatly denying admission to the 119. Although Carnegie Mellon and MIT Sloan also rejected those who checked their decisions early, other schools did not act so rashly. Stanford, for example, is reevaluating each applicant in question, giving them a chance to explain themselves...
Those in charge want their store to reinvent the character of Boston rap and foster a new sense of community on the local level. As they passionately explain, the true face of hip hop is far from what is presented in the mainstream media. Hip hop, they say, is “also conscientious and positive, and about bringing up the community.” This is the side of hip hop that they want to promote...
Since my free-writing realization, the Holocaust has continued to resurface in my life. We read a memoir of a survivor in one of my classes, and she came to discuss it. Eli Wiesel spoke at Memorial Church. I wrote another story, this one about a father trying to explain the Holocaust to his five-year-old daughter. I visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. And I made the decision to spend my summer researching and teaching about the Holocaust in a museum in Australia—that is, if my funding comes through...
Ideal Mate Now: Number-one quality: fun-loving. Absolute necessity. Also, honesty and good genes—attractiveness, fecundity, tall girls. I’d like the girl to be prettier than me. Let me explain. I am more high-maintenance than most guys, so I’d like her to be more high-maintenance than I am. Otherwise I might seem like a priss...
Before you have me committed, let me explain. Lately, I’ve had awful luck with women. A friend calls it a “fizzle” when someone has a date or two but the relationship doesn’t progress from there. By that metric, I’ve had something like five fizzles since the middle of October...