Word: parallelisms
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...think it’s a little unfortunate that these committees went off on a parallel track,” says Louis Menand, Bass professor of English and American literature and language. “[The courses] are not appropriate for many Harvard students...
...think it’s a little unfortunate that these committees went off on a parallel track,” says Louis Menand, Bass professor of English and American literature and language. “[The courses] are not appropriate for many Harvard students...
...paths, as undergraduates, were not that parallel,” says Little, the Class Secretary for the Class of 1955, who will also be Duehay’s roommate in Winthrop during the reunion. “Other than knowing he was on the chess team, I didn’t know that much...
Zealous new investors going into a hot field, chasing market momentum and betting huge sums on the belief that this may be a new era: it sounds disquietingly like the late-'90s day traders who went the way of the Pets.com sock puppet. Does the parallel bother Keith Weaver, who is contemplating ditching his job as General Mills operations manager for the real estate biz? Nah. "We might be riding that wave," he says. "But the wave is there. So I'm going to get on it." Weaver's plan is to ride south, into the Florida market. Max Kaiser...
...biggest danger is that in the process, the radicals will succeed in igniting simmering ethnic and religious tensions-and mirror the divisions already apparent outside the university walls. Sectarian groups were barred from running for student-union elections earlier this year, but many simply set up parallel "committees" that carry greater clout than the elected unions. At Mustansiriya University, there are two "committees" representing Shi'ites-radical cleric al-Sadr is particularly popular-and a third is backed by Sunni students. All three routinely celebrate religious events on campus, plaster walls with posters depicting their respective religious leaders and conduct...