Word: openers
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...education officials can either act on or ignore them as they wish. There's a chance that, in the U.S., UNESCO's recommendations will be drowned out by the knee-jerk outrage of conservative pundits. But at least the guidelines can undergo sober and thoughtful examination in more open-minded places ... like Ethiopia...
...start until at least 2012, according to Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith. Some locals and preservationists may be fighting for the buildings to be saved, but Yale University President Richard Levin told the Yale Daily News that the two new residential colleges will probably open...
...grand gesture to Harvard was his 1899 gift of $150,000 for the creation of the Harvard Union, to be built on the site where the Barker Center stands today. The Union was constructed in 1902, and Higginson’s promise of “a house open to all Harvard men without restriction and in which they all stand equal” was for a time fulfilled. The New York Times concluded in 1913 that “the consensus of opinion seems to be that the Union is doing a great and much-needed work and that...
...Amazon and fill a virtual shopping cart, or stop by Gnomon Copy to place an order for $300 worth of bound essays, book-buying is usually stressful and costs a fortune. The worst part: There’s a good chance you’ll never even crack open that brand-new copy of “The Order of Things.” Come May, you might sell it back for a few measly dollars. But, fated as this cycle may seem, there is an alternative: considering why you lined up to buy that book in the first place...
...than the second. When the wind starts to bite, generally in late October, I often find myself hopelessly facing a pile of books full of pristine, note-free margins. It’s a vicious cycle—such a situation can be so upsetting that I fail to open even one. And then, when the time comes to sell the volumes back, I can’t remember why I bought them in the first place...