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...Plummer Professor of Chrisitan Morals Peter J. Gomes says, “Every president of Harvard is chosen with a kind of implicit shopping list of things...
...Wednesday the Boston Globe outlined a plan to bring the protest to a swift conclusion while allowing everyone at Harvard to benefit. Harvard would agree to raise to $10.25 per hour the wages of the approximately 400 workers it directly employs, with the implicit goal of extending the same wage to all other workers on campus. In return, protesters would leave Massachusetts Hall and allow the University to begin negotiating wage agreements for both union and non-union workers...
...Harvard. They would ask the same questions asked at the beginning of the search: How is Harvard perceived? What does it need? Where is higher education going? Who would make a good president? Only rarely were interviewers told they were being considered for the job, but that fact was implicit in many of the interviews...
...unusual-girl-gets-lucky: handsome prince marries a sea creature (The Little Mermaid), handsome prince marries maiden who's been dozing for a hundred years (Sleeping Beauty), newly handsome prince marries bookworm with eccentric dad (Beauty and the Beast). Funny, though: the curtain falls at the wedding. The implicit message is that the chase is more exciting than the prize...
...blitz, it may be the first TV catchphrase Americans have got sick of before its show even aired). But there's an integrity to her evil-Regis act. She mercilessly skewers the weak, but her tongue-lashings--"Slow coaches and ditherers have no place on the team!"--are an implicit reproach to players who would vote their strongest rivals off (the last one standing wins the whole pot). To Robinson, this kind of strategist is a "coward." As a quiz show, Link is quotidian. But if it does click with Yanks, we have a guess...