Word: idealizations
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...before the official deadline of Monday, Dec. 3. Students who elect to concentrate in social studies later than sophomore fall can elect to take Social Studies 10 concurrently with the one-semester tutorial in their junior year. Taking two intensive tutorials in one semester would, however, be less than ideal. But potential social studies concentrators are not alone in facing full-year tutorials as sophomores. Students interested in astronomy are “strongly encouraged” to take Astronomy 97hf, a half-course that lasts through both semesters. The Classics department requires a full-year tutorial for sophomores...
House: Mather, baby. Concentration: VES Film Studies. Hometown: Victorville, CA. Ideal Date: Anything that ends in a freshman dorm. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Feed my narcissism. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Disneyland until the fireworks, then Mather. First thing you notice about a girl: Confidence and competence. Your best pick-up line: Hi, I’m Nick Noyer. Best lie you’ve ever told: This is my first time, too. Favorite childhood toy: A mirror. Sexiest physical trait: My metabolism. Favorite part about Harvard: How truly genuine the students...
...Blackwater $800 million to do something its own soldiers are trained to do? It is not that their sacrifices are not important and tragic—the men in the 2004 bridge hanging in Fallujah were Blackwater employees—but that they are unnecessary and disruptive to the ideal and the exercise of America’s volunteer military. Let’s put that $800 million toward better protecting, compensating, and relieving our own soldiers and National Guardsmen by increasing pay, equipment, and recruiting efforts.It has been estimated that over 1,000 private contractors have died in Iraq...
...Cary R. Covington, a professor of political science at Iowa, called Leach “a very civil, very even-handed, remarkable individual,” adding that “he’s an ideal Republican to deal with because he’s so reasonable and so open-minded...
...before they arrive. The hotel then welcomes them with fruit, chocolates, music or flowers to suit their tastes. "You have to give your guests a warm, genteel, caring kind of feeling," says Adrian Zecha, whose 18 minimalist Amanresorts--from Bhutan to Morocco to Jackson Hole, Wyo.--epitomize the new ideal of understated luxury. His Amanyara retreat in Turks and Caicos, which opened in 2006, features 40 teak-lined cabanas, and guests are welcomed not at a formal reception desk but by open-air pavilions set among ponds and reflecting pools...