Word: question
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...larger question is not whether the University will meet its 2016 target levels of greenhouse gas emissions, but whether Harvard will be able to continue to push sustainability as a global priority and lead by example...
...August, Hillel was ready to pop the question. He and Tova were scheduled to be in Toronto, Hillel’s hometown, for a mutual family friend’s wedding. Before Tova arrived, Hillel and his sister scouted out places downtown to ask her, eventually finding a music store he liked. After Tova came accepted his proposal, they went outside to be greeted by his flower-laden sisters. The engagement party was the following Saturday...
...thought we had landed in paradise,” he said of arriving the Square . “There were four bookstores, five bookstores, nice haberdasheries, poets’ theatres, and plays and concerts galore. We were just not disposed to question the way things were...
...dinner party last month, a biomedical engineer asked me a rude question. He was not trying to be rude. He was drunk. Informed that I am an English professor, he responded, "Why?" He explained that his mission in life is to save lives. Mine is to say clever things about dead writers. Prodded by his wife’s grimace, he backtracked a bit and reassured me that Shakespeare is "obviously important." Praising Shakespeare is how the world apologizes for its lack of interest in literature. Those of us who have devoted our lives to literature are dogged by this...
...December, Ahmed popped the question, journeying to Maine with a bottle of wine the two had bought at an Ohio winery on a summer road trip with the intention of saving it for a special occasion. Collaborating with Morton’s roommates, he set up the wine and two glasses on a table in her apartment while she was at work and put their song on and a suit...