Word: explaining
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Since last December, the Harvard Living Wage Campaign has united University and community members in an effort to secure a minimal living wage for anyone who works at the University. Last Tuesday, we invited President Neil L. Rudenstine to address our community and to explain why he has continued to pay poverty-level wages to workers despite the fact that support for a living wage has grown both on campus and nationwide. Not only did Rudenstine fail to appear at our rally, but he has yet to offer an answer to our question. In fact, he has made no response...
...these are not the "mediocre campus-wide events" that the staff is referring to, I would be interested in having them explain exactly what events they are referring to. The truth is, because of the scarcity of funds, these events and the holiday shuttles to Logan Airport have comprised almost the entirety of the council's campus-wide events over the past four years...
Tajiri signed a contract with Nintendo, which was impressed enough by his previous attempts at game programming to want to develop his latest idea. But he couldn't quite explain the concept to Nintendo, and the company couldn't understand it fully. "At first Pokemon was just an idea, and nothing happened," says Shigeru Miyamoto, the genius behind Nintendo's previous best seller, Super Mario Brothers. Miyamoto became Tajiri's mentor and counseled the younger man as he toiled on what would eventually be Pokemon. (Tajiri would pay ambivalent tribute to Miyamoto, giving the name Shigeru--Gary...
Parents can attempt to discourage tattooing and piercing by explaining the health risks of infection or blood-borne diseases, but remember that kids are armed with something grownups will never have--the invincible confidence of youth. That is what makes them such good skateboarders and roller-coaster riders. So after you've made all your best arguments, show your kid that you know a thing or two about the impermanence of fashion. Somewhere in your attic there's a shoebox full of faded Polaroids of you flaunting your teenage geekiness. Good-naturedly display some specially selected photos...
...Techno has its spiritual home in Detroit. To be specific, its roots lie in '80s Detroit, which might explain its darker, grittier sound, compared to the escapism of house. As its name suggests, techno tends to focus on the possibilities of the machine, involving perhaps more daring explorations, although detractors claims that takes away from the music's danceability...