Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classes, clicker pens, and 20 page problem sets done on the computer. Perhaps some Chemistry 30 students would choose to spend their Thanksgiving break studying--they can do so regardless of impending exams, but I think it is reasonable to say that a fair number of students would prefer to spend their break unwinding, vacationing, or spending time at home with their families. Harvard should not encourage the "anal" tendencies of some pre-meds by forcing all Chemistry 30 students to spend their vacation studying. I am writing this letter because, as a non-concentrator...
...arrogance alienates him from his wife (Isabella Rossellini) and son. They -- like John Turturro's determinedly patient psychiatrist, a specialist in traumatic stress, and Tom Hulce's determinedly impatient tort lawyer, trying to extract a settlement from the airline -- would prefer a more humble and malleable response to a near death experience...
...Clinton, who also inherited Bush's more active strategy for Somalia, embodies the tendency of privileged nations in appearing newly allergic to foreign affairs. By ^ everything he has said and done since taking office, this most domestically minded of recent U.S. Presidents has made it clear he would prefer the world to go away...
...Vittorioso eventually decided to settle down and return to his carpentry roots--which has brought him back to Boston. "I enjoy the restoration work," he says. "There's a real challenge in taking the old and making it new again. I prefer this work over new construction...
...would prefer to have the entire staff voteon it," he says. "It should've happened two monthsearlier when everyone was around...