Word: flocks
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Stephanopoulos developed his selflessness as the grandson and son of Greek Orthodox priests, expected to be above reproach -- a child impersonating a grown-up. "A lot of priest's kids go bad, go wild, can't stand the strain of the scrutiny of the flock looking at them," says Begala. "George clearly was up to it." His too-good-to-be-true face looks out from a gallery of photos lining the wall of his parents' apartment on New York City's East 74th Street, next to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral, where his father serves as dean...
...insidious, though, is differentiation not by attitude but by race or sexual orientation. Despite the alleged pro-diversity effects of non ordered choice, a large percentage of Harvard's Black population lives in the Quad, many Asian-Americans live in Quincy and many openly gay, bisexual and lesbian students flock to Adams and Dunster. The housing system allows self-segregation, and contacts between Blacks and Asians and whites and gays and straights are reduced Whether separation is self-imposed is irrelevant to the ills that it creates. When we have little interaction with those unlike ourselves, basing attitude about others...
...complained of an existing "paradox" in American education. "Students all over the world flock to our higher education, but our elementary schools are not first-class," he said...
Regardless of the restrictions, studentscontinue to flock to the Head of the Charles,making the weekend one of the busiest of the yearon the Harvard campus...
...University's favor, Memorial Hall is probably the only place on campus big enough to accommodate 1600 first-year students. But there are other factors to consider. For instance, what will they do with the 1000 students who flock out of Ec. 10 in Sanders every Tuesday and Thursday at exactly 1 P.M.? And why force those poor students to listen to ecomonic theory accompanied by the pungent odor of meatless lasagna? And what about the Union dorms? Twenty-nine Garden Street is probably about the same distance from Memorial Hall as Penny-packer...