Word: leste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lest one naively think, “I can be different. I do not fit this Harvard mold,” I would have to correct you. Think of how you got here. You did well in school, because that was what one was supposed to do. You played a musical instrument, because your parents inculcated that ability as a symbol of excellence. You ran for leadership positions because your teachers encouraged you to do so. (Of course there are some genuinely brilliant kids who have developed their talents without such constant prodding, but they fall...
...nosing in wherever it can make things substantially more convenient—the subtle implications of the changes often going unnoticed until they’ve been observed carefully for quite some time. And further, those implications may in many regards be overwhelmingly positive. But lest we cave in some sense to the demands of the ever-growing Facebook group which proposes the California Relocation of Harvard University, we ought to recognize that despite how irritating alarm clocks might seem, and despite how unappealing the blustery walk to Maxwell Dworkin might be, there really is something to the buildings...
...future health-care costs of public employees. That's when new accounting rules go into effect requiring governments to itemize health-care spending and forecast costs for coming years. The change in bookkeeping will either set off a wave of tax increases, reductions in government services or both. Lest anyone think state and local retirement-plan sponsors may emulate those in corporate America and simply walk away from the promised health-care benefits, think again. More than once, courts have ruled that health benefits promised to government workers (among them judges and legislators)--unlike those promised to workers in private...
...crude humor in black caricatures. Marsh was persuaded to include these by black colleagues, who "insisted that negative imagery be included." A disclaimer by this display reads: "[To give] an entirely positive view would be to rewrite history the way we would like it to have taken place." Lest we forget...
...drummer for Plan B for the Type A’s, one of Harvard’s most accomplished musical acts, says she has long dealt with institutional apathy. In response, she has founded a group entitled the Coalition for the Advancement of Rock And Roll (CARAR). Lest the group effect the same type of neglect it is designed to fight, the term “Rock And Roll” here should not faze the guitarless; according to Hufstedler, it is meant to be a “catch-all,” including...