Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guardian of Peninsula, a conservative campus magazine. Instead, Campbell, who spent three years rowing crew, jokes about his growing waistline. The NRA cap? He likes to shock Harvard liberals with the cap and by "whistling `Dixie' in the Yard." And when he meets someone open-minded, the cap can prompt a conversation that bridges ideological divides...
Nero and a number of other PBHA staffers wereinvolved in a series of accidents whichjeopardized the association's insurance policy.According to then PBHA President John B. king'96-'95, Harvard would not renew insurancecoverage of the approximately 18 vans PBHA rentsduring the summer without prompt action by theassociation's board...
That is more than will come from bullyragging by Congress. In fact, if its actions prompt an increasingly confrontational tone, an already suspicious Beijing might be convinced that the U.S.'s real aim is not cooperation but, as in days past, containment-a situation in which, as Levin puts it, the "two countries could come to see each other as enemies." In short, a vision that might become a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...Botton, the unforgivably young and unforgivably knowing author of "The Romantic Movement" (Picador USA; 326 pages; $23) offers in his second novel a happy discourse on love and the nature of the words "I love you." De Botton comes to realize that these words can be a question, a prompt or an opening bid. "Light as a souffle, and no less addictive," saysTIME book critic Pico Iyer, "The Romantic Movement is that happiest of artifacts, a novel that smiles."Previous TIME Daily
...World university library (with the strange exception of the faux avant-garde, silver "elbow lamps"). Since it's another sparsely attended library, you can definitely find quiet and solitude here. Robinson Hall is one of those buildings of such mediocrity that pretty much nothing short of a riot would prompt you to leave the library and explore...