Word: extras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admissions process. One very reasonable student explained that our academic schedule exists in order to make room for reading period. Unfortunately, when asked to explain the existence of those two lecture-less weeks before finals he replied "they realize that during the term, we focus on our extra-curriculars more than our classes. Reading period is the time to catch up and do all the work we didn't do during the term. It's actually very understanding of them...
Harvard's most admirable performance came from the penalty kill, which held Brown scoreless on its four power plays, three of which came in the first. But extra-man play wasn't where the Crimson suffered...
Prestifilippo abandoned the net with less than two minutes to play, giving the Crimson its fourth extra-man advantage of the night, the first on which Harvard was able to capitalize...
...this score I have been of two minds. On the one hand, I hate to see an extra $20 fee on the bottom of a term bill already in the tens of thousands of dollars. Over the years we've dropped most of the "a la carte" items of a Harvard education and other differences among student term bills (there used to be a lot of special charges for taking certain courses, for example). We've actually eliminated several small charges over the past five years by folding them into the general costs of going to college here. It seems...
...DREW BARRYMORE's mother. This may explain why last week she put several of her daughter's belongings up for auction on the Internet. Perhaps not the best strategy for rectifying a relationship that by her admission is a "bit estranged," but one nevertheless that may fetch her some extra cash. Among the items Jaid is offering are baby clothes, including an undershirt decorated with baby chicks and ducks, a Christmas card sent by Jack Nicholson and the red cowboy hat Drew wore in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The last item has an asking price of $45,000. In explaining...