Word: fellow
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...sote voce, “but of course we are.” My preference is to think of the school as a metaphor for excellence. Some things at Harvard are not the best. I remember developing a seemingly brilliant chemistry equation and discussing it with a graduate teaching fellow. He liked it. Later, I found that there were two things wrong: The equation was incomplete, and the correct formula had been discovered a century previously...
...Applications will be reviewed by a committee made up of Ameer, representatives from the Office of Student Life, the Freshman Dean’s Office, the Athletics Department, the Facilities Maintenance Office, and three students—two members of the Undergraduate Council and one Peer Advising Fellow...
...renovations were corporate decisions beyond the purview of the store's staff, but Criscuoll and some of her fellow workers wish they had been consulted on parts of the planning. As a result of the renovations, the staff has lost some wiggle room "behind the lines," or the barrier that keeps workers behind the food bar and cash register...
...Ridge, who now works at his own consulting firm, Ridge Global, writes in his book, with co-author Lary Bloom, that he finally decided to pen a political memoir because "I thought my fellow citizens and public officials needed to know about what happened, what ought to have happened, and what we must do in the future to secure America and to raise the issue of security well above politics." It is an ambitious task for a 280-page book, but Ridge seems to touch on all of the highlights - the bureaucratic turf battles, the political pressures, the massive challenge...
...maintain, these captives were the exceptions. According to a 2007 FBI report, 73% of victims displayed no signs of such affection for their abductors. Nonetheless, crisis negotiators often actually try to encourage captor-hostage bonding by telling perpetrators about the victims' families or personal lives. Being viewed as a fellow human being, the theory goes, may be a victim's best hope for staying alive. Which means Dugard's apparent reluctance to attempt an escape may ultimately have been her ticket to freedom...