Word: matters
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Citing Berkowitz's reference to "recognizedexperts" in his complaint, the elected memberswrote they could find no "requirement that anymember of an ad hoc tenure review committee, muchless the committee as a whole, be expert in thenarrow subject-matter areas of the tenurecandidate...
...recognized experts" in his complaint, the elected members wrote they could find no "requirement that any member of an ad hoc tenure review committee, much less the committee as a whole, be expert in the narrow subject-matter areas of the tenure candidate...
...senior gift committee isn't destined for any better of a life than the rest of us. Our lives until now have been spent in school, but the end of our lives as we have known them doesn't mean that our lives are ending. It doesn't matter that you won't make the "Alumni Notes" section of next spring's Harvard Magazine because, whether you just spent the last two hours vomiting sangria in a Barcelona gutter or making $6,000 on savvy on-line trades, what will matter-the things that will let you wade across...
...lives won't stay that way. Our fellow seniors are our friends and lovers, our extracurricular colleagues and our fiercest rivals. By maintaining ties to those who have given our lives meaning, we can keep ourselves afloat amidst all the uprooting and reshuffling of our priorities and ideals. No matter how turbulent life becomes, it's always easier to orient yourself when you have other people as your compass...
...course the substance of this is less a matter of nature and much more the nurturing experience at Harvard. I honestly could not be more grateful to the tutors, administrators, dining hall staff, nightwatchpeople and "chief and coach" who have made my life so lovely. Having always enjoyed the opportunity to find a cup of coffee late at night and play with a tutor's young child and seemingly endless chances to rant with a brilliant future law-school professor about the strange journalistic mantra of meta-reportage, perhaps I protest too much about Harvard's pampering...