Word: interested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usually found that in the beginning I am always into academics, but I just can't sustain it. And that's why I like music, because I can always sustain interest. Most of the other stuff I do is music....Both my roommates are writing compositions too and it's cool because we hang out and listen to operas and read through fugues together. One of my roommates is doing a composition thesis and he made the answering machine message based on a tone row in his thesis with a combination of the 12 notes of the scale...
...contrast, the students on the committee for the Ann Radcliffe Trust are being chosen in a manner which seems capricious at best and, at worst, a dangerous threat to the future of true undergraduate participation and interest in women's issues on campus. A single administrator, Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery '87, has quietly been contacting specific members of the student body with an invitation to sit on the committee. Some of these individuals are directly linked to women's groups, while others have been chosen seemingly at random...
Unfortunately, it is human nature for people to think of their own self-interest first. It is a rare individual indeed who will eschew his or her own concerns in favor of the greater good. The blatantly self-promoting actions of Massachusetts legislative leaders is another example of how such altruism is in critically short supply...
...true test of courage in public service comes when a representative of the people has to decide between personal gain and the public interest. It cannot be an easy choice to make; self-preservation is the dominant emotion in all living things. People will go to terrifying lengths to survive, especially in politics. Former President Richard M. Nixon's cover-up of the Watergate scandal was, after all, a misguided attempt to save his own political life...
...local case in particular spread interest in identifying problems with medical errors and helped spark studies like this one, he said...