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...table is crowded with issues. Living wage issues, Core reduction issues, study abroad issues, archaic secretive tenure issues. There are dozens to pick from. They fade in and out, never really completely dropping off the radar. And the import of decisions today, decisions made by the bureaucratic cogs that run this venerable institution, will most likely never make anyone’s life easier or more enriching. At least not today. But the crystal ball is half-full, not half-empty. Mixing metaphors obfuscates the point but—to the rescue—the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer...
...natural thing, answers Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71, and yes, the numbers will plateau. Over the next 25 years, student groups will echo the current interests of students. Illingworth predicts that some of the groups we have now will fade out and will be replaced with more contemporary ones...
...course no grandfather's tale would be complete without some moralizing. Sept 11 "left marks on the economy that will not soon fade," and in an irrational-exuberance moment Greenspan reminded his audience that economic forecasting - and its kissin' cousin, investing - has been made even more difficult by the "major uncertainty that we all must deal with these days: The specter of further terrorist incidents on American soil. It simply is not possible to predict whether there will be any such incidents or to forecast their possible consequences for the economy...
...abusing a drug that’s basically for six-year-olds,” she laments in More, Now, Again when her denial begins to fade. “I could not imagine walking into an N.A. meeting and talking about addiction to Ritalin. Everyone would laugh! It’s just too weird and smarmy, too pathetic. So uncool...
...resemblance to the colored planes to come. In “Untitled (Subway)” (1937), isolated figures—none of them apparently aware of each other’s presence—sit or stand waiting on a train platform. At right, the tracks narrow and fade into the distance; the sense of space and perspective is remarkable throughout. The painting is composed of rich, warm colors, but its overall feel is brooding and reflective. However, it is equally interesting to look at a small component of the painting—the area with the wall...