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...American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is held every year, and this past March was our 30th one, and it was the first one after the movie. We had a 40 percent increase in attendance in one year. I have had to move the event for 2008 because we simply cannot fit into that hotel anymore. We are going to Brooklyn next year. 6.FM: Do you have a favorite English word of the day?WS: Well I have a favorite English word of all time. The word is U-C-A-L-E-G-O-N. It’s a neighbor...
...straightforward, open, and honest about her plans”—qualities that made implementing drastic changes that much easier.TOUGH CHOICES Along with vision, however, came a host of challenges that made implementing these changes that much harder. “Drew had to consider what fit or didn’t fit, what she could or couldn’t afford,” Dunn notes. “[And] none of the changes were off the wall or impulsive.”The changes, however, were profound. The primary problem that Faust had to deal with...
...think we’re sort of buying a pig in a poke here,” Lewis said, suggesting that the Faculty was accepting the proposal without a full understanding of its basis. “If people are imagining that 9 out of 10 courses will fit somewhere, then this entire curriculum is reduced to distributive requirements,” Lewis said. General Education Task Force member Stephen M. Kosslyn, the Lindsley professor of psychology, replied that the task force intended for only a “medium amount” of departmental courses to count for general...
...says with a nervous smile. “But I’m sure I’ll have to work my way well down my list before anything comes of it.”Instead of seeking a stereotypical neo-beatnik life, Vasiliauskas aspires to fit her interests as a writer into her current plans to become an academic, following in the footsteps of poet-academics John L. Ashbery ’49 or Adrienne Rich ’51.“I’m pretty sure that I’ll go to do these...
...sentence couldn’t keep him out of office for long, and in 1994, Barry was reelected to a fourth mayoral term by the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic population. Lifelong liberals, my parents were for once divided. My mother exercised caution and voted Republican. In a fit of blind loyalty, my father stood behind Barry.I was 10 when Barry made his triumphant return to the mayor’s office, and I was more than a little confused. Washington is a place of politics and, theoretically, accountability. Men in suits arrive, and if they don?...