Word: intents
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...miles north of San Francisco was teaming with abandoned shacks, garbage and decrepit buildings. After a succession of spooked online buyers also backed away, Bruce Krall, a commercial mortgage banker from the southern California enclave of Laguna Hills, paid a real estate agent $700,000 for it, with the intent of one day living there and making it an educational institute, vacation spot and retreat center, akin to Esalen in Big Sur. But because "personal family concerns" make it difficult for Krall and his family to move north now, Bridgeville is back on the market...
...University president. The course was meant to give overall meaning and purpose to the students’ college experience.The moral reasoning requirement, though, was not meant to be a grand exercise in making life in the Yard meaningful.Instead, according to a 1978 core curriculum report, the original intent of the requirement was to teach students that it is possible to think systematically about issues like justice, personal responsibility, and friendship. In Phyllis Keller’s book “Getting to the Core,” then-University President Derek C. Bok, addressing an audience of professional school faculty...
...you’re born that way, it’s a disability.” Vaz, however, does not believe it is Harvard’s prerogative to protect a group that some students do not acknowledge. “I feel like [protecting transgendered individuals] was the intent of the rule when it included gender,” says Mark D. Lurie ’07, speaking of the sexual orientation clause. “I understand how someone who is transgendered doesn’t feel included in that, but I don’t think...
...support Harvard-style housing, you are being inconsiderate in effect, if not in intent...
...with most divestment actions, the symbolic value is also significant and the intent is to catalyze similar action among a wider spectrum of investors, decision-makers, elected officials and the public,” wrote Davis...