Word: regards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Havasu. We're talking wakeboarding here, dude, the sport that is becoming to water skiing what snowboarding has become to downhill. A relatively new development, wakeboards account for 20% of the water-ski market, a sizable chunk considering that there are 30 million water skiers worldwide. Most regard Arizona as the Alps of water skiing. In a recent survey of WaterSki magazine readers, the Grand Canyon State claimed three of the top five destinations: Lakes Powell, Mead and Havasu...
...Eakins advised his students to "peer deeper into the heart of American life." No American painter worked harder to make the human clay palpable and expose it to scrutiny. He identified with scientists, many of whom he knew, and in a portrait of a surgeon, he produced what many regard as America's greatest 19th century painting, The Gross Clinic...
...world, to mix some part of ourselves with objective reality. This is the drive behind much of our anxiety. We want access to jobs that "make a difference," and these seem to be in short supply. Artists often think that they have cornered the market in this regard. They think that they are the only ones to leave any trace of themselves in the world, but we know better...
...papers and their studying in the two weeks given to them in Reading Period, right? Well, not really. It is not that we are irrational. Rather, we are just so busy with the ordinary business of schoolwork and extracurriculars (not to mention living, lunching, loving and laundry) that we regard deadlines as due dates. It is difficult to finish papers ahead of time when there are so many things to do in between the perennial now and ever-too-soon then. The deadline-as-due-date is therefore rational...
...professor or graduate student. A Reading Period centered around learning would be very much in the Harvard tradition. A first step in that direction would be the removal of paperwork from the two weeks of Reading Period. The University Registrar, Thurston Smith, can aid students in this regard by moving the deadline (perhaps for next semester) for non-proctored exams to either the start of Reading Period or the end of Exam Period...