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...work hard in my classes largely because I want to get good grades. I am scared of C’s and D’s, which is really silly considering they are just letters and I’m bigger than them and can almost certainly bench-press more than they do. I do all the things required to get good grades–I go to class, do my homework, steal other people’s notes, etc.—but I still don’t get the straight A’s that Harvard students...
...staff consists of Schwegman and a financial staffer.Yet Darnton’s connections in the library world and his prominence as a proponent of online media promise to be a boon for Harvard. Darnton is a trustee of the New York Public Library and the Oxford University Press, and he drew the presidents of the Bibliothèque Nationale of France, the New York Public Library, and the head of Oxford University’s library to a conference at Princeton last fall about “the Research Library in the New Information...
...million annual visitors. The 580,000 sq. ft. facility, located under the east lawn of Capitol Hill, will feature two "orientation" movie theaters, two gift shops, a museum, an auditorium, 26 public restrooms and the largest cafeteria in Washington. Lawmakers will use the facility to hold press conferences, luncheons, and even to vote when the House or Senate needs renovating. The floors will be made of Tennessee marble, the walls of Pennsylvania sandstone and several doors of pure bronze. The plaza above the center, paved with Virginia granite, will hold Presidential inaugurations and allow state funerals to proceed...
...Press Conference on Papal Flight to Brazil...
...CORRECTION: While still on the plane, Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi repeatedly tried to clarify the Pope's remarks. In the official transcript of the press conference released the next day, the Pope's response to the excommunication question was "cleaned up," and made to look as though he had merely been stating a general principle of Catholic canon law rather than responding to the current situation in Mexico...