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Most of all, she possessed an abiding sense of wonder, a reverence for life and its precious, transitory nature that could properly be described as devotional. Sometimes, as I was growing up, she would wake me up in the middle of the night to have me gaze at a particularly spectacular moon, or she would have me close my eyes as we walked together at twilight to listen to the rustle of leaves. She loved to take children - any child - and sit them in her lap and tickle them or play games with them or examine their hands, tracing...
Georg Herold’s “Portrait” tempts those with a sophisticated palate and who pine for something they won’t find in the dining halls. Caviar dots the work’s surface, its precious little lumps making a social statement as they compose the faintest outline of a face...
After receiving her budget, Smith dons her inline skates, red-checkered trousers, an old Abercrombie and Fitch tank (found doing dorm crew), and an army fatigue jacket with matching bowling cap, and skates over to her favorite locale for finding rare and precious accoutrements: the Goodwill store in Central Square...
...writers and artists, there are publications that could publish their work. Again, however, the bar is extremely high, and the College offers students precious little help to clear it. Extracurriculars, then, are not necessarily a viable alternative—and certainly do not provide the instruction a class could...
...want to serve their country on the basis of their sexual orientation is wrong.That is the central point in this dispute that both the University and some students seem to have missed. For all its rhetoric during last winter’s Solomon court fight, the University has done precious little to exercise its clout in the interest of repealing both Solomon and DADT. What effect the University could have is unclear, but we can never know unless we try. Interim University President Derek C. Bok could easily write a letter to Congressional leaders, the Joint Chiefs of Staff...