Word: hards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impression is the GSE is trying very hard," he says. "But there are serious problems. The law school, for example, not withstanding prominent African-American appointments, is in desperately bad shape with respect to other minorities...
...somebody's common room and shared a bunch of ideas about what college was supposed to be, about where they were from and what they thought was really important, but the minute placement tests came along, let alone classes and extracurriculars, everyone was holed up in their room, hard at work or hard at play, and the great intellectual college conversations you had dreamed of became the thing of nostalgia and viewbooks...
Harvard seems populated with people I would fit into two large groups, which have some overlap: the leaders and the hard workers...
Which brings us to the next category: the hard workers, probably the most deeply anti-intellectual group at Harvard. Some work hard in their classes and can be found at all hours at computer terminals or in the bio labs, and some work hard at not working: scheduling the perfect weekend, planning the cheapest way to hit Paris and Acapulco during reading period or beating the next level on the newest Nintendo game. These people are focused and do the work that gets the grade--or at least gets them by--but ask for their thoughts and their eyes glaze...
...hoped to bomb Iraq back to the Stone Age and then forget about it," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But it's obvious now that you can't forget about Iraq, and it's hard to see what the bombing accomplished except to end the monitoring system. Now the U.S. appears to have come around to the European approach, emphasizing the need to have monitors in there." The danger now, though, is that UNSCOM (the United Nations Special Commission) gets replaced with a tamer and less confrontational monitoring body. "UNSCOM's combativeness eventually created political problems for both...