Word: hail
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...tests for “graduation.” That incident, as regrettable as it was, involved only one bad apple in the sumptuous bushels of Harvard’s faculties. How much greater, then, is the threat posed by the innumerable professors and graduate students at Harvard who hail from that barely-accredited university on the banks of the—oh. Right. Yale doesn’t have a river...
...afflicts five to 20 percent of the population, and is five times more common among females than males. Unsurprisingly, it’s more common in the North, where days are shorter. Confirming the popular mythology surrounding the affliction, doctors find that students who hail from warmer regions might show signs of SAD their first winter in northerly Cambridge...
...additional 89 students are in the engineering program. Many of the rest of us choose concentrations that are not as job-specific, though they still give their undergraduates plenty of room to be aggressively pre-professional. We’ve all met our share of economics concentrators who hail the supposed profitability of their field of study. And our enormous government department serves the politically ambitious in the student body. Still others try to mitigate the hopeless impracticality of their concentrations by going to law school. In 2002, 331 Harvard graduates went off to get their J.D.s...
...fall schedule, you have 22 hours of programming. Some of them are fastballs down the middle. Brotherhood of Poland we felt was quirky. It was unusual, the writing was terrific, terrific cast. We thought, all right, let's take a shot here. It's a little bit of a Hail Mary pass, but we took it. I'm happy we did. It didn't work. No great surprise...
...paid attention to Radiohead this year, you know that they have grown not only darker, but more explicitly political. In titling their new project, for example, they replaced the cryptic inclinations that brought us previous efforts like