Word: offer
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...editorial, the Dean attempts to answer the arguments of those who defend final clubs. He says that proponents of the clubs have argued that dormitories offer an inadequate escape from academic and social pressures. He then champions the House system by offering a two-tiered analysis. First, he argues that the Houses provide students with diverse living environments which promote their learning experience. Second, he argues that "students know what to expect when they come to Harvard, and the Clubs do not serve students well as places where they may seek to escape from the most basic tenets...
Nguyen. perfect yard captain, says typicalHarvard students spend the majority of their timein clubs and sports with people who share similarinterests of traits. She says the first-year dormsshould offer students the opportunity to meetdifferent types of people...
...York police intelligence division, the sleazy employment agencies under the Manhattan Bridge that specialize in placing illegal immigrants in jobs around the country often misrepresent and oversell the type of work available. When workers return and can't pay off their immigration debt, the gangsters (or "snakeheads") offer them a deal. The illegals describe their ex-employers' operation and return with shotguns and masks to rob the place with members of the gang. The debt is then canceled. "Local police are usually stumped, but we know exactly what happens," says Ong. "It has become a nationwide problem...
Touchy-feeliness may be replacing total quality management. Nearly all companies now allow paternity as well as maternity leave, and 13% of companies even pay new dads during their time off. On-site day care is among the hottest benefits: though just 9% of companies offer child care at or near work, an additional 12% are planning to do so. Even business lingo is getting sensitized: "family-friendly" policies--benefits that help working parents find time for soccer games--often become "lifestyle-friendly" policies so as not to offend single folks...
When an inspired and talented cast under the direction of Nick R. Parrillo '00 took aim at Beth Henley's difficult Crimes of the Heart, though, it hit the bull's-eye. Great Harvard plays usually work because they're big, smart and offer a thinking audience cerebral pyrotechnics and heady intellectualism; Crimes works because it rings true for anyone who has ever...