Word: ranks
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...took the next flight back." But God left a couple of things behind: the gift of magic -- black magic or white, and every rainbow shade in between -- and the curse of belief in it. Women levitate as they give birth; the veils of dead brides float in the rank breeze. Proud, loving Hatidza (Ljubica Adzovic) has the power of healing, and her grandchild Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) can do a few telekinetic tricks too. We won't even discuss -- because they come at the end of this beggar's banquet of a film -- the walking outhouse and the killer fork...
...Hath Rank No Privileges? Many Harvard cognoscenti suspect that Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 is the administrator who really runs the University. But apparently Steiner's name doesn't pull much weight with the folks who distributed tickets for the Beanpot tournament at the Boston Garden...
...Hath Rank No Privileges? Part 2 Steiner's seal of approval also did not carry much weight with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this week. At a meeting this week, the full Faculty voted to send back to his office major sections of a report on free speech guidelines prepared by Ford Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye. Steiner's office has already reviewed the report twice, but there's always room for improvement...
...staff editorial by The Harvard Crimson ("Justified, but Insensitive," Feb. 8) reminded me of this destructive editorializing act--reminding me that, as a gay man, I had better remember my assigned rank and file on the battlefield of newsprint because my social position was tenuous and dependent, and therefore subject to attack...
...most political of the six objectives calls for U.S. students to rank first, worldwide, in math and science. The "moonshot goal," as one White House wag dubbed it, is a rare admission by Bush that America is falling behind its foreign competitors, especially the Japanese. The evidence of failure is abundant. In a recent international survey, American 13-year-olds finished last in math and nearly last in science. Bush stiffened his proposal by requesting, in his 1991 budget, a $100 million increase in the education programs of the National Science Foundation and a $230 million grant to help states...