Word: interest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second request may be of more interest to you. Like I said, I wrote a "My First Year" piece directed at last year's first-year class. I thought I had it all figured out: understand that in all likelihood you're not going to be the superstar at Harvard that you were in high school, and you'll be all set--a fruitful and satisfying life awaits. However, in truth, I still battle with this every day I'm at school (and especially on the days that I receive mid-term and final grades). So, this past spring...
...high school students from other countries have expressed interest in learning English, but we haven't been able to accommodate them in the past because the [existing] program is geared to adults," said Susan E. McGee, registrar for the division of continuing education...
...economy Net stocks are now up against some old-economy fundamentals they haven't faced before. Rising interest rates are a big deal. The 30-year Treasury-bond yield popped over 6% last week, its highest level in more than a year, and could well stay there. Speculative stocks (and Internet defines the category) tend to get hard hit when higher rates threaten to slow the economy and the market. There are also basic questions about Internet bellwethers, including AOL (Will AT&T shut it out of cable access?) and Amazon (Can it reverse slowing revenue growth...
...apparent by now, a reader's rooting interest in Hannibal is sorely conflicted. Sure, Lecter did some hideous things, but do we really want to see him tortured to death by that creep Verger? For long, long stretches in the middle of the novel, Harris himself seems to be of two minds on that very question. Employing his virtuosity as an orchestrator of suspense, the author puts Lecter, his facial appearance altered by collagen injections, in Florence, Italy, speaking impeccable Italian and lecturing to scholars on the works of Dante. Verger's network of spies has spotted Lecter there...
...have been a public high school teacher for 30 years, and I read your report with great interest. But school violence isn't just about depression in youngsters. It's about anger. It is not depression that drives these children to kill. It's anger and their inability to handle their rage. A depressed child kills himself. An angry child kills his classmates and his teachers. LORRAINE M. SULLIVAN Arlington, Mass...