Word: minding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...majority of seniors depart Harvard with positive impressions of their undergraduate experience, some say that they wouldn’t mind staying longer. “I could do another 12 to 16 years here,” Philip R. Goldfarb ’08 said. “I can’t imagine anywhere else I’d be a better academic or have a better social experience...
Another potential concern is that the prevalence of economics reflects pre-professionalism instead of the liberal arts ideal of intellectual inquiry. Never mind that Harvard started out largely as a pre-professional school (the profession then was being a Protestant minister). Some students may choose economics because they believe it is good preparation for a business career, but the department’s courses emphasize economics as an intellectual pursuit. This is an annoyance for some students, but in our view the right approach for a liberal arts university...
When President Reagan began his trip to Latin America last week, he said he was going “with an open mind, to listen and to learn.” But when he returned to Washington five days later, Reagan remained as set and predictable in his ways as he was before his departure. The President continues to see the region through a distorting East-West prism; countries are distinguished only by their allegiance to either capitalism or communism. The real problems of Latin America—the social, economic and political inequities that affect different nations in different...
...easy to slip into feeling that losses mean you’re not making progress,” junior Laura Peterzan said after Harvard’s loss to No. 16 William and Mary. “It’s important to bear in mind we are playing incredibly strong teams. This is all making us stronger.” Against No. 1 Northwestern, the Crimson fell 6-1 after junior Beier Ko earned the only point with a straight set victory over the No. 6 singles player in the nation. Ko, who went 10-8 to lead Harvard...
Perhaps with November in mind, both campaigns have focused attention on the state's seven Indian reservations, a crucial bloc that helped narrowly defeat incumbent GOP Sen. Conrad Burns in 2006. Both expressed support for improved federal-tribal relations and medical care. Clinton visited the Flathead Reservation, and daughter Chelsea met Thursday with a group of state tribal leaders. Obama was adopted into the Crow Tribe by the Black Eagle family just before he spoke to 3,000 supporters at the reservation's Veterans Park a few miles from the site of Custer's Last Stand. He's hoping that...