Word: onto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard is subject to the magnetism of celebrity: "Academstars like ...Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.," Gabler writes, "built their reputations the way stars usually did: by gaining media attention, in this case writing articles for newspapers and magazines and appearing as experts on television programs, or glomming onto the latest academic fad or controversy...
White said he hopes to pass the wisdom he gained from his experiences with these programs onto his students...
...couple of weeks ago, the cast of "Guys and Dolls" walked for the first time onto the stage of the Hasty Pudding Theater. An intense excitement ran like electricity through my body--I was finally standing on one of the oldest and most famous stages in America. This uplifting sensation was almost immediately eclipsed, however, by the realization that I would never belong to this stage, performing the show for which it's known. Before self-pity could consume me, however, this feeling was replaced by the hard realization that every female performer in the cast felt likewise...
Especially surprising was senior point guard Tim Hill's inability to hold onto the ball. Hill finished the contest with 14 points and six assists, but was forced into five turnovers on the night, due largely to senior guard LeVar Folk's suffocating defense...
...most challenging demonstrations for Rueckner lies in the area of quantum mechanics. In the "single photon interference demo," the team sends single photons, one at a time, through slits in a screen. Even though the photons are sent sequentially, students watch the interference patterns as they are projected onto a screen. The result is "completely mind boggling," says Rueckner, but a visual demonstration, rather than a classical explanation, aids the students' understanding...