Word: pleasants
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...when Subramanian offhandedly speaks of her Harvard acceptance as "a pleasant surprise," that's when admissions officers squirm and struggle. A daughter of Indian immigrants who was raised in Niskayuna, New York, (pop. about 5000), Subramanian is the big fish for whom the lure of recruitment programs like pre-frosh weekend are intended. And it is her attitude that captures a sentiment more common among pre-frosh in April than in February...
Those certainly were the expectations. Bush and his advisers had portrayed the three pleasant but slightly enervating weeks since the Inauguration as merely the interlude before the drum rolls heralding the formal presentation of his legislative program. White House aides talked confidently of the President's "action agenda." Bush had been predicting publicly that Congress would not like his courageous proposals, even as he artfully wooed legislators to ensure a warm reception. By the time the new President made his triumphal entrance into the House chamber, beaming and backslapping like a joyful alum at a Yale reunion, the stage...
...double victory came as a pleasant surprise to Harvard Coach Frank Haggerty, who expected more competition from the Northeastern Huskies, the 1988 men's champions and this year's favorite...
...apologized for running the piece, as we should have. It was, in some respects, the equivalent of running a discussion of Dr. King's sex life on his birthday. But it was not a pleasant experience to have a Black law school student suggest that I was a racist or that our institution was racist for having printed it. The intent was not to offend, but the effect was to have done so. In addition to the apology, we ran a piece critical of the profile and challenging the appropriateness of having...
...Club, a gym popular with commodities brokers. One agent who called himself Richard Carlson claimed that he specialized in soybean contracts and was a native New Yorker; the other, who called himself Michael McLoughlin, said he worked the Treasury- bond pit and was from Florida. "Both were nice guys, pleasant, friendly," recalls a trader. "Now that I think of it, they asked an awful lot of questions, but I thought it was just eagerness to learn...