Word: forgiven
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According to Miller, Harvard and government regulations allow for a great deal of flexibility in payment options. Loans can be consolidated or deferred and, through some programs, even forgiven...
...perhaps time now to cease chastising Harvard's planners and administrators--what is done is done. One group which played an important, probably pivotal role in the decision to destroy the hall cannot yet be forgiven, however. That group is the Faculty of Humanities, the future occupants of the rabbit warren which is replacing the hall. I must admit that I initially was unable to believe what a number of Harvard professors and administrators have in the past suggested--that the Humanities Department refused to support the hall's preservation not because it was desperate for space or ignorant...
...passed last week provided billions of dollars for programs that Republicans had sworn to kill. In April, when Dole shelved the immigration bill after Democrats tried to attach riders on both the minimum wage and Social Security, he reminded the opposition sourly, "We have the majority." He could be forgiven for seeing how that might be possible to forget...
...recent report on diversity, Rudenstine was not trying to write his own politics into Harvard's history so much as find the now ubiquitous language of diversity within Harvard's commitment to excellence. Despite the political debate in Washington, the president can be forgiven for assuming there was little controversial in rehashing this campus mantra in his report on "Diversity and Learning...
...scientists hesitated to support his views because they couldn't see those canals for themselves. Later it turned out there were no canals; the dots on Mars Lowell squinted at so long probably arranged themselves into lines in his mind. The canals were simply an optical illusion. Lowell was forgiven because he really believed what he saw. But those who supported him without seeing anything were not forgiven...