Word: intendant
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President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877 and the father of the House system, probably did not intend the Houses to become uniform residential and administrative districts, void of individual character and academic purpose. At a place as large and intimidating as Harvard, students want and deserve a smaller community that they can call home--an academic, recreational and residential home...
...ceremonies, mark my words, will be vehemently controversial. For one thing, some members of the audience attending the Oscars intend to demonstrate their displeasure at the decision to honor Elia Kazan, the Lifetime Achievement winner who infamously "ratted" out supposed Commies in the film industry, by sitting on their hands or booing when the director appears on stage. But even more interesting will be the weird dynamics within the categories...
...dean did not intend to cause bodilyharm, then there may be a problem in proving heintended to cause harm to her," Merry said...
Despite the somewhat tepid response, organizers say they intend to press their grievances further. Tom, the MSA co-chair, said this week that the group will write a letter to parents of minority students to let them know about its concerns and ask for support...
Politicians have quickly adopted the foolish language of the press, and the accompanying majoritarian mindset. "I intend to get down to business," House Speaker Dennis Hastert said last month at his swearing-in. "That means formulating, debating and voting on legislation that addresses the problems that the American people want solved." Politicians must walk a fine line between reminding us what we want and urging us to embrace some wants and abandon others. The fact that the Republicans anointed someone as apparently unvisionary as Hastert indicates the consequences of the run to the center in American politics: the desperate capitulation...