Word: prospective
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Members of the D.U., whose club has been closed since an altercation between a club member an a high school football recruit last spring, expressed excitement at the prospect of once again being members of an active Final Club...
Alien life of any sort would make biologists ecstatic, of course, but it is the prospect of intelligent life that fires most people's imagination. "That final step from life to intelligent life is probably the longest shot of all," observes Des Marais. Even so, the small band of astronomers devoted to the search for broadcasts from high-tech extraterrestrials is encouraged: their 35-year quest has always rested on the assumption that planets exist outside Earth's solar system, and the fact that they have been proved right makes the search seem considerably less quixotic...
...Three weeks ago, when some of Simpson's friends came to his home to look at the video, he complained that "these white folks ain't gonna let me do anything. I've got to try to do something with blacks." So alarmed were Simpson's lawyers by the prospect of a public appearance the same week he was being deposed in the wrongful death suit that some of them put their objections in writing. But Simpson would not be deflected. After complex negotiations with BET, it was agreed that the network could ask whatever it wished, but Simpson didn...
Many students, excited about the prospect of working closely with an expert faculty member for their thesis or even for a supervised research plan, are quickly disappointed when reality sets in: professors cannot dedicate time to these affairs because they need to dedicate time to furthering their careers. Although this is an understandable immediate reaction to the pressure placed by Harvard criteria, what does this mean for the striving student, the student who, despite a difficult schedule of his own, is willing to set time aside to research a topic that can potentially help his future? It is a tragedy...
...well save the University money without compromising programs. Lewis' appointment of Judith H. Kidd rather than Greg Johnson to the new deanship could be a sign of the unfortunate but real necessity of Harvard's hiring more and more administrators who are primarily fund-raisers. Randomization, although an abhorrent prospect, could conceivably make four years at Harvard a more diverse experience for many students. And a harsher alcohol policy is a good idea in theory in order to stop students from hurting themselves and others...