Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last possible add-drop dates for classes approach, a few still prowl the aisles at the Coop--some students are scrambling to buy books for classes they've only just joined, some are returning piles of dull novels after giving up on a course and then there are some who visit the bookstore again and again in order to draw out the pain of watching money trickle into the Coop's cavernous pockets. I must confess to belong to this last group of students. I buy only a couple of books at a time, hoping that perhaps next time there...
With Higdon back in the offensive prowl, Harvard's season is looking that much brighter...
Without an honor code, Harvard remains an institution overtly suspicious of its students. Proctored exams, a practice that would disappear with an honor code, insult the very integrity we are meant to have. The proctors prowl up and down the aisles with the suspicion that we might cheat. Thus, during exams, students are reduced to "potential cheaters" and not considered mature individuals who have gathered to learn. Only one person can go to the bathroom at a time during an exam at Harvard. What kind of trust does this imply the University has in its students? Harvard applicants are accepted...
Zyuganov can't be everywhere at once, so more than 200 designated surrogates prowl the country touting his virtues. There are also scores of affinity groups, like Veterans for Zyuganov, Farmers for Zyuganov and Factory Workers for Zyuganov. It's all low-budget, but the message is intense, and stripped of flourishes, it is always the same: As Yeltsin seeks to scare voters about a Communist future, the Zyuganov coalition seeks to keep the focus on Yeltsin's failures. "It could work," says Anatoli Chubais, the architect of Yeltsin's privatization program. "The real standard of living...
...were under the sea, we would be constructing a reef, not building it with our hands but supplying it with our bodies as building material. We would be the snow reef and the snow reef would be us. A living, unified organism within the snow. Bobcats and dogs would prowl...