Word: felted
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...various campus lists last night, Ellison wrote that when Rosenthal was asked by one of her students “what kind of person” should get HIV/AIDS testing, the UHS director responded, “promiscuous” people. “The students said they felt judged,” Ellison said. “They felt [Rosenthal] was condescending,” Rosenthal denied making the comment, saying Ellison “misinterpreted” him in what he assumed to be a “private” conversation between her and two students...
...first set some guidelines in terms of, ‘Here’s what we expect in terms of housing.’ Then, maybe we’ll know where the park goes,” Mattison, the task force member and local resident, said he too felt that the discussion of parks had been “way out of sequence,” but that residents had managed to use the meeting to shift the focus of the BRA’s planning “to human beings from grass and asphalt...
...meaning is poetry, then science must be mere prose. But where does that leave us? With my own sophomore year winding to a close, I think of the infinite possibility those Harvard men must have felt, believing that they were contributing to making the world a better place. To deny the Grant Study its ambitious objective to pinpoint the causes of happiness has a whiff of the wet blanket about it. But there’s something even more miserable about thinking that our happiness can be defined by the jobs we choose, or what we eat for breakfast...
Could this be what it felt like for Alice when she went through the looking glass? The elevator that transports guests down to Bel Canto provides a surreal start to an evening in London's first lyrical dining room - the elevator carriage resembles a shrunken La Fenice, Venice's gorgeous opera house. Downstairs in the plush velvet-and-gilt dining room, which convincingly resembles an opera box, dimensions are restored to conventional expectations. The service, however, goes beyond them. Not only are the waiting staff attentive and swift, but all of them boast voices so utterly pure and transforming that...
...mete out justice, protect us from violence and environmental degradation, educate our children, construct our infrastructure, provide medical care to the aged and disadvantaged, and are the expression of our common values and democratic choices. The consequences of depriving our state and local governments of critical funding will be felt at a very human level by our most vulnerable citizens. The private cost of public poverty cuts to the heart of what makes us a great nation, the “Shining City on the Hill” so dear to disciples of Ronald Reagan. President Reagan was fond...