Word: fixes
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FemSex is unnecessary in the same way as an African-American studies class is unnecessary; it’s easy for us to look at this campus, at our seemingly liberal society and say there are no problems left to fix. It’s easy to say that the solution lies in finding a better boyfriend or just shutting up and learning to live with it. But some people see study and exploration as a stronger way to approach the problem. The more we learn about ourselves and others, the more likely we are to feel happy and safe...
...earlier, McCain had been confronted by a woman who upbraided him for not being a "real" Republican because of his dealings with Kennedy and Feingold. "I reminded her about Ronald Reagan standing in the Rose Garden with Tip O'Neill, a liberal Democrat, pledging to fix Social Security," McCain told me later, with some satisfaction. "Even a real Republican needs to work with Democrats if you're going to tackle things like Social Security." McCain remains the rare Republican candidate who has attempted bipartisanship in Washington. But that doesn't mean he isn't stone conservative on most things...
...Harvard student, leaving the library is a painful process, akin to that of the junkie saying goodbye to his final fix. But it used to be that the only obstacles between Lamont’s fluorescent corridors and a good night’s rest were that Ec midterm you hadn’t studied for or the English reading you hadn’t yet attempted. Now there’s also James Fasci, a recently hired Allied-Barton employee with a bold new vision for library security. Before Fasci, leaving Lamont meant passing bags and books through...
...lengthy and detailed categorization of “his little friends”—verbs—plods along, reading like a lecture in Linguistics 101. There are moving and changing verbs (brush, dribble, shake), verbs of having, knowing, and helping (bring, tell, fix), and verbs of acting, intending, and causing (march, come, kill). Verbs in their contexts determine a specific understanding of intention and situation, Pinker reminds us. After all, in English, “juice dripped from the peach” is different than “the peach was dripping with juice...
...film cameras that the other 10 students received. The move, according to teachers, may be controversial, but is necessary. “Before, you would conserve and put all your energy towards that one picture; and now, it’s like you take it, you see it, you fix it,” says Irina A. Rozovtsky, the teaching fellow for the class. She explains that there is no need for digital photography students to wait for negatives to come back, or to ever handle film. Because the digital students get instant feedback on their work, they...