Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea is to allow Kennedy School students to take jobs which don't pay anything, which essentially means public service jobs," said Joseph S. Nye, KSG dean. "Since the mission of the school is to train students for public service, this is very important. Plus, it's a fun event...
Gluck lavishes layer after layer upon her theme, but the poems themselves are hard to grasp. Usually jumping straight to the big abstract idea, as in "I am weary of the world's gifts, the world's/ stipulated limits," she fails to illustrate adequately her points or make the reader feel them. Poor in images, her unsentimental poems are easily forgotten. Her form, occasionally (seemingly arbitrarily) rhyming, of dull everyday speech does little to enhance her words. Although she completely penetrates and bursts the peephole perspective of sexual resentment and idealistic angst, her from seems to lag behind...
...Maybe entering a building inevitably filled with screaming elementary school students completely adverse to the idea of "seeing where history was made and a nation born" in a panoramic view of Boston isn't exactly appealing, but the John Hancock Building certainly is one of its kind. Not necessarily because it's that tall (nothing compared to New York City or Chicago), but because it has the most militant, bitter and angry security staff on earth. Of course, the Hancock Building's brochure trumpets praises for New England's tallest sky scraper: "come aboard the express elevator and feel...
...really sure that you want to be premed, taking Chem 5 is a good idea," says Isaac J. Weiler '02. "It's good to find out in the beginning...
...Monday, in case you missed it, was Windows Refund Day. Here?s the basic idea behind it: When you buy a computer that comes with the Windows operating system pre-installed -- and the majority of computers do -- the EULA explicitly states that if you decide not to use that operating system, you?re entitled to a refund equal to the value of the software you?re not using. (A copy of Windows 98 costs around $90.) The upshot is, if you use a different operating system, such as Linux, OS/2 or BeOS,) you?re owed money. When alert users...