Word: retainers
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Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby asked the Office of Undergraduate Education this summer to develop plans for “early course selection,” a system of preregistration that would retain shopping period yet require students to fill out their study cards the semester before...
...others, displacing Harvard students from productions held at the University is hardly the way to help them improve their acting. If Harvard is unwilling to get rid of these interlopers altogether, it should at least scale back their participation to a more reasonable 20 percent maximum so as to retain the benefits of their participation while maintaining the Harvard character of its shows...
...equal in their devotion to the movement. As the Taliban swept across the country in the mid 1990s, the group became an amalgam of true believers and those who sought protection, a salary and food. Many non-Taliban commanders capitulated to the movement rather than fight, in order to retain their power and their men. Among the people of Tirin Kot, there is a binding dedication to Islam but not to the specific brand preached by the Taliban and especially not to the extreme forms of punishment the group meted out in the name of Islam. And they distance themselves...
...University has to figure out ways to retain student autonomy but at the same time cultivate a culture of evaluation where students take a step back and think about their mission,” she says...
...collecting in revenue. But many commercial applications are in advanced stages of development or already on sale: handheld devices that can sense anthrax spores, hand cream that can protect us from them and computer chips that are faster, cheaper and cooler (we're talking temperature here, not hipness) and retain data even when the power is shut off. Says Richard Smalley, a Rice University professor and Nobel-prizewinning chemist: "We are only beginning to see the things nanotechnology...