Word: preciousness
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Well, allow me to retort. Harvard students are grown up enough to vote in the national elections of a country of 260 million, which the administration needs to be reminded is larger, more important, and even--gasp--wealthier than our precious University. Those of us in Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) programs are grown up enough to train to kill and, if necessary, die for this country. But the administration is probably right: I'm not grown up enough to choose where I live...
...BEEN MERELY A PARTNER in one of figure skating's greatest pairs, the news would have been devastating enough. Had he been simply a young father with an adoring wife, a precious three-year-old daughter and so much to live for, his death would have seemed unfathomable. But because Sergei Grinkov was Prince Charming on and off the ice, his fatal heart attack at the age of 28 last week is agonizingly tragic, not just for the millions who have watched him and his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva perform but especially for the close-knit skating community that had come...
...council should have realized that a silly project like "Spirit Week" would go over like a lead balloon on this campus. It should not have squandered our precious money and its puny reserve of political capital on something it might have anticipated would end up in its expansive warehouse of failures...
...Carrey comedy, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls--more money than the combined take of Nos. 2 through 20 on the box-office list. Few films have achieved such instant dominance, and certainly none so awful as this sequel, about the pet detective's trip to Africa to find a precious white bat and prevent a war between two backward tribes. Nearly the best one can say of Ace 2 is that it's blithely, ceaselessly racist...
Because we graduate with a Harvard diploma, the world is supposed to be our oyster; but who besides us actually gets this precious opportunity? Does everybody have the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" that we do, or must one meet a prerequisite of affluence and education first? Harvard students seem to become members of an educational elite when they graduate, but the majority of them were part of it before they set foot on campus...