Word: obvious
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...this race. As physically exhausting as it is, it is incredibly energizing and gratifying. Everyday somebody says something to me or does something that reinforces my belief in the importance of this race, and it is often with the same encounters. The big stage of presidential politics, which for obvious reasons is covered by the press, is where a lot of it is laid out. But that is not what gets me up in the morning. It is the important intimate encounters with people who thank me for helping their children get health care or people who grab my hand...
...were blocking shots when they needed to, [playing] in the right position, getting the puck all the way down the ice,” Taylor said. “[The penalty kill] was a big factor tonight.”While Taylor’s shorthanded strike represented the obvious special-teams highlight of the evening, the penalty kill performed admirably on every Big Red power-play opportunity. Each Cornell man-advantage began with Harvard dumping the puck into the Big Red zone, and the Crimson was even able to generate some shorthanded opportunities before Taylor?...
Setting aside these social and academic justifications for this program, there remains one obvious and compelling argument for its implementation. Historically, Harvard College has scored remarkably poorly in student satisfaction polls. A prevailing mood of malaise in Cambridge hasn’t deterred new applicants, of course, and they’re still coming in droves. But if the food is lackluster, the housing sometimes derelict, and the faculty inaccessible, then at the very least we should come home to sleep on something wider than a plank...
...sticks its name on lots of tacky items,” he said. “Harvard has the Coop and the Kennedy School.” Speaking to The Crimson after the speech, Reiss revealed that there was a lot more to these jokes than may have been obvious. “Harvard is the most distant and chilly education system imaginable,” he said. He had dreamed of coming to Harvard since the age of twelve, yet what he found here failed to engage him.“I wasn’t interested...
...Yorker magazine.Never was Greenhouse’s influence more evident, Toobin said, than the December evening when the Supreme Court passed its ruling on the contentious 2000 presidential election. The decision was released late at night. “There probably were 75 [reporters] there and it was pretty obvious that everyone was looking to Linda for answers on what [the decision] said and what it meant,” Toobin said. “Her status as first among equals was never more clear than on that night.” The eminent reporter’s influence reached...