Word: extra-curricular
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...cool fixer, the guy who cleans up the messes - hit-and-run driving cases, ugly divorces, immigration muddles - in which the firm's otherwise respectable clients find themselves embroiled. The partners are grateful for his services, and don't care to know too much about his methods. Or his extra-curricular activities, which include a gambling habit and an $80,000 debt to the mob, who lent him money for a bar that his feckless brother ran into the ground...
...become one of the nation’s most influential academic commentators. He writes widely on the media, politics, and economics, frequently excoriating investment strategist Don Luskin, who DeLong terms the “Stupidest Man Alive.” But the blog is just an extra-curricular activity—DeLong chairs Berkeley’s political economy major while keeping up with his teaching and research, even though he has written that universities should be rewarding blogging alongside more traditional academic pursuits...
...Matthews Hall, and rowed (and quit) freshman crew.Their current joint effort, their UC campaign, calls for a “culture of collaboration,” strengthening ties within the College, and forming new bonds between the Harvard community and the world beyond the gates.An “extra-curricular review” that would parallel Harvard’s own Curricular Review tops their priority list. The pair say the review, led by a student-faculty committee, would produce reports on how student groups could better work together.Other platform issues include mobilizing students around the issues of faculty diversity...
Professors were also impressed with Granholm during her time at HLS. Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60 said that Granholm was as impressive in the classroom as she was in her extra-curricular pursuits...
...biggest fear at the moment is that my films might be elitist, which I never intended them to be, and I don’t ultimately think that they are,” he says. Indeed, as important as his VES degree were Bujalski’s extra-curricular hours spent at the Harvard Film Archive or the Brattle. His tastes are broad: ask him what the last good film he saw was, and he’ll tell you “Predator”; ask him about the impact of studio “specialty divisions?...