Word: mires
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Unfazed, one of my fellow hikers plunged an arm into the mire, frowned, reached further, groped around, frowned, and reached yet deeper. When my trainer (and his arm) reemerged, naught but a mud-clump coating could be seen. It oozed muck and scum. Probably toted small swamp creatures. Reeked, needless...
...largest flaw is that the implementation of the document’s nebulous recommendations has been left to an all-powerful standing committee. This has been the greatest weakness of the Core, as it allowed it to deteriorate into an inflexible mire whereby exemptions are few and far between and students are frequently forced to take mediocre classes that hold no interest...
From your new book, Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You, can you tell me one law to achieve happiness and success? -Abdisalan Mire, Hamilton, New ZealandGet your mind right. That speaks to meditation and prayer. All of our movements are prayers. Every statement we make and every thought we have is a prayer. And what are we praying for? We are praying to lift people up. Because if you start to move to a cycle of giving, then you will...
While French never made it to my study card, I also withdrew from Social Studies 10 instead of dividing it with credit, grandly capping off four months of Durkheim and Tocqueville with a failing grade on my transcript. Perhaps I was distracted by the mire of bureaucracy that switching concentrations entailed. Nonetheless, I take full responsibility for my incompetence. What baffles me, however, is the fact that my advising “parachute” never opened above...
...should not be forgotten after freshman year—if problems persist, so should teaching.The new FAS dean needs to seriously address Harvard’s failing undergraduate education, before we begin to lag even further behind rival schools. Amid territorial faculty departments, a large FAS deficit and a mire of Harvard bureaucracy, it will be up to the dean to bring forth reforms that will ensure the quality and success of the Harvard education for years to come...