Word: grayness
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...shots into a character's body, so that no one could mistake it for mere hackwork. Another major difference between The Human Dilemma and more mainstream books is Chadwick's uses of black and white rather than color. This perfectly suits the material, which explores the gray nuances of decisions about bringing another life into world...
...boys, with some affection, call their school "the box." It is an acknowledgment that their modern, gray concrete building with 36 classrooms and a basketball court is both protection and containment. Outside the box, says senior Ali Fadhli, there are "problems." He means temptation - and bigotry. The temptation is sex and the way the culture outside the box is saturated with it. "That's why Islam has repentance," he says with a laugh. The bigotry is from fellow American citizens who the students believe are watching them with suspicion. Since 9/11, "there's been extra pressure on them," says Hanan...
...Gray harbors any resentment towards the Faculty, if she has any opinion at all about the recent fracas, she isn’t saying. Neither, for that matter, are her colleagues on the board. Corporation members, notoriously secretive but not clinically mute, ignored repeated e-mails and calls and to their offices, homes, and cell phones over the past three weeks. And a protracted effort to coordinate an interview with Houghton through the Harvard News Office ultimately proved fruitless...
...firm support of Rubin and Gray may have been enough to protect Summers’ job, but with his leadership challenged, the president maintains another key advantage: in a period of extraordinarily rapid turnover, Summers had overseen the appointment of half the Corporation in just four years, molding a body more amenable to his leadership than even the group that picked him. When Nannerl O. Keohane, the former president of Wellesley College and Duke University, takes over for Gray on July 1, just two fellows from the era before Summers will remain on the Corporation...
...months and one more statement of support later, Houghton sent himself and Hanna Gray to a meeting in Loeb House requested by members of the Faculty Council. Two professors who attended the April 25 meeting said they came away with a sense the Corporation would slow the pace of its major initiatives—the capital campaign, curricular review, and Allston expansion. Both Houghton and Gray said the University needed to undergo a period of “convalescence,” according to the professors who attended the meeting...