Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...word, she's a bitch. Ben's friends might diagnose Debbie's condition as a severe case of PMS, and they wouldn't be far off, if the P is for Perpetual. She hardly tries to conceal her hatred of men, and her husband in particular: "I get worse-looking and he gets better-looking. It's so unfair." Her theory of getting men to do a woman's bidding - "You criticize them a lot, and then they get so down on themselves that they change" - sounds like extreme rendition. At one point she freaks out in exasperation at Pete...
...time has passed, though, the increased academic abilities of Harvard students have made these factors almost irrelevant, Hoffmann said. “Today, the College has changed. I do not think there is a particular need academically to gate-keep the concentration anymore...
...love universities, and I love this one in particular,” she said at an afternoon news conference. “I can imagine no higher calling, no more exciting adventure, than to serve as the president of Harvard...
Etchemendy was admired by Harvard professors in particular for his smooth relations with Stanford’s faculty. But he made it clear to the committee in the early fall that he was not a candidate for the presidency, and was not asked by the committee to appear for an interview, according to an individual familiar with Etchemendy’s activities during the search. His lack of ties to Harvard concerned some committee members, but not enough to thwart his candidacy...
...them. After a long lunch in Huang’s house, Kirkland, the pair began a tentative e-mail friendship, bolstered by weekly trips to the same church. Lee realized that he was the same thoughtful junior who had e-mailed her the article earlier.One incident in particular became significant to the pair. Leaving the T together after church, the friends encountered two homeless men, one of whom offered to write a poem in return for change. “Tell me the most amazing thing that’s ever happened to you and I’ll write...