Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans and Ronald Reagan in 1976, and then with the Democrats and Gary Hart in 1984. Last week it was the Republicans' turn again, as party elders arrived at work all over the country Thursday morning, scanned the papers and nearly spilled their coffee trying to fathom the idea that a man they'd scarcely heard of six months ago might just turn out to be their standard bearer against Bill Clinton. Age of Possibility indeed...
Rhonda M. Johnson, a Somerville entrepreneur, visits Cybersmith several times each week. She says she is creating a page on the World Wide Web to test public response to an idea for a company...
Aimee Perl '96, who is responsible for organizing the class, said she the idea to start a massage group came from a friend who took a similar class at Tufts University...
...questions: What does it mean to "inform the question"? I didn't know questions were the kinds of things that get informed. "Hey, there's an emergency, inform the doctor." "Quick, there's an answer, inform the question." That just doesn't seem right. Who decided that every concept, idea and notion was going to be either "somewhat intuitive" or "rather counter-intuitive?" As far as I can tell, these are just code words for "makes sense" and "completely absurd, but true anyway." But I may be mistaken...
Rudenstine relies heavily on the idea of the admissions process being more than a game of numbers: "Any definition of qualifications or merit that does not give considerable weight to a wide range of human qualities and capacities will not serve the goal of fairness to individual candidates (quite apart from groups) in admissions," the report reads. In other words, a 1580 on the SAT and a top GPA aren't enough: admittees must possess "character" as well...