Word: impromptu
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...July—including the Harvard Business School 2+2 program applicants, students on fellowships expecting checks in the mail, and graduate students writing dissertations—would still receive these services. Additionally, undergraduate interns who unexpectedly find themselves without a summer job could still rely on OCS for impromptu bailouts. But what OCS does not anticipate doing, according to Mount, is laying off employees. Instead, she has spearheaded an effort to seek consensus among the OCS staff to determine how to best cope with expected budget cuts. Mount referenced the president of Wheaton College, who she said reduced...
...Elisabeth Ross have made enough of a mark to be beloved by residents. At House Masters' open houses, you're likely to catch Wrangham chatting about current events or giving a group of students an animated primer on animal behavior. The couple is wont to invite distinguished speakers, host impromptu events, and--only when asked--regale you with tales from their years in Uganda. If the Porters are the parents you never had, Ross and Wrangham are your eccentric, worldly, loquacious aunt and uncle. Resident Dean Katherine Stanton also ranks high, hosting wine and cheese tastings for House foodies...
...placed between “Motet for Mom” and the elegiac triptych. The narrator remembers her past with the titular “J”—the things that made her angry, things that now seem petty—during an impromptu phone call after many years apart. In “Steps,” a changing relationship “dismembers [the narrator’s] life.” For the poet, losing someone is just that—even when they’re still alive. Lepson deals heavily...
...Addenbrooke's psychologists decided to try the device with their patients with memory loss. They found surprising results. While memory-impaired patients who take pictures with traditional cameras often fail to remember the photographed events or activities, those who used SenseCam, which has a wide-angle lens and takes impromptu rather than staged pictures, found their recall to be greatly enhanced. "This isn't rocket science and the device is quite simple but there's something about its spontaneous, wide-angle photographs that seem to mimic the brain's own episodic memory," says Emma Berry, a neuropsychologist working...
...common interests, such as a revival of the North American economy, reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, and the war in Afghanistan. But the unscripted moments of the President's first foreign visit since being elected to the White House - including a declaration of love for Canada and an impromptu visit to an Ottawa farmers' market for a beaver-tail pastry - overshadowed the official agenda...