Word: relationship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Though there’s no formal relationship, a significant proportion of each Deep Springs class leaves the desert Harvard-bound. “Over the years, the Transfer Admissions Committee has seen many superb applicants from Deep Springs and has admitted a fair number of those candidates,” E. Marlene V. Rotner, a Harvard senior admissions officer, wrote in an e-mail...
...both physical and mental health, and, as a college bent on producing successful world citizens, Harvard can’t afford to ignore the body-mind connection. An August 2006 study in the journal “Stress & Health” found, in college students, a significant negative relationship between physical activity and perceived hassles/anxiety. As Wellesley College PE department chair Bridget Belgiovine said, “You’ve got to have an active body in order to continue to keep your mind rejuvenated.” Harvard students, whose day-to-day environment is intensely competitive, could...
Most readers probably know Kingsolver from the award-winning “Poisonwood Bible,” published two years before “Prodigal Summer.” Like “Poisonwood,” the newer novel explores the relationship between people and the land they live on, this time in southern Appalachia. Kingsolver interweaves three story strands set in the fictional Zebulon County near the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. In this small farming community on the edge of a great forest, the contact between human and nature is still immediate and meaningful...
...esteemed Cuban historian Rafael M. Hernández argued last night during a presentation at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. The Kennedy visiting professor told a crowd of about 40 scholars and students that the three covert meetings could have matured into a more fruitful diplomatic relationship between the two countries. “The embargo became central in U.S. policy towards Cuba,” said Hernández, a faculty member at the University of Havana. “Its dense web of regulations, prohibitions, and exclusions narrowed the legal space to experiment with...
...civic encouragement aimed at bolstering the embattled government of Hamid Karzai. Security comes first. At Riga the alliance underwrote a still vague plan for a "Contact Group' that would involve neighboring countries and international organizations in the search for a solution for Afghanistan. But Washington's velvet-gloved relationship with Pakistan - and its non-existent relationship with Iran - augurs poorly for that effort. Robust and dangerous military action is a still unavoidable task, and NATO after Riga is in no better shape to manage it fairly than before...