Word: preciousness
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...wonder what I can learn from having lost someone so precious in my life. By choosing to come to Harvard, I have followed in my brother's footsteps, in a way, and I believe I am seeing and experiencing what he saw 13 years ago. I see a place that is too often built on cynicism, criticism and sarcasm, and a place that pretends to have more and more information, yet that is increasingly void of meaning...
...Crimson's editorial of Oct. 6 quotes a single sentence from an e-mail I sent on Oct. 1 in a way that misrepresents Harvard's position on alcohol abuse, suggesting that we may be guilty of "complacency about drinking at Harvard" and that I have "forgotten our precious final clubs...
Nevertheless, Lewis's comments seem to reveal a hint of complacency about drinking at Harvard. True, no fraternities are recognized by the College. But has Dean Lewis forgotten our precious final clubs, also not recognized by Harvard, but where students drink the weekends away? Or the heavy drinking that occurs weekly at parties in private rooms? Or the annual, beverage-laden initiation ceremonies for sports teams and other officially-recognized organizations...
Even a princess can't do some things. JREDS lost a fight against construction of an Aqaba oil refinery, and though the society helped win a law against traps that ensnare precious coral fish as well as edible species, many fishermen still use the devices. Zipping by a culprit as she rides on a royal pleasure boat, Basma gives a shrug that is part resignation, part stiffened resolve. But mostly stiffened resolve...
...There is precious little breathing room for any of the family features this holiday season. Says Paramount motion-picture-group vice chairman Rob Friedman: "The movies are going to cannibalize one another. All you can hope is that parents during the holidays take their children to multiple movies." Or as any bug can tell you, the trick will be to avoid getting squashed...