Word: revisits
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...depart today “to better serve [our] kind.” And more than any specific concentration or class, paper or professor, there is one lesson at the core of our transformation. As obvious as it sounds, Harvard has taught us to succeed. There is no need revisit the impossible odds associated with gaining admission to this college—such fortune should humble us. We have been taught by a Faculty chosen for their unrivalled ability to revolutionize their fields of study. We have won access to their minds, and they have enriched our own. We have...
...modern China's most critical moments. It marks the first time a Chinese leader of such stature - as head of the party, Zhao was nominally China's highest-ranking official - has spoken frankly about life at the top. Most significantly, Zhao's account could encourage future Chinese leaders to revisit the events of Tiananmen and acknowledge the government's tragic mistakes there. Hundreds of people were killed or imprisoned by government forces, though few Chinese today know the full story...
...only to discover that there’s no place like home. While HSTP typically performs shows to entertain and cheer up children in Boston area hospitals, “A Space Adventure” is being presented on campus as lighter theatrical fare for any one wishing to revisit a small part of his childhood. “The show is more for sheer entertainment than our usual public service function,” says HSTP president Hunter H.A. Landerholm ’09. Though the show is primarily designed for children, its organizers are convinced that older audiences...
Those proposed rules didn't make the final December cut, but certain SEC commissioners want to revisit the issue. In a February speech, commissioner Kathleen Casey said it was imperative to address "the oligopoly in the rating industry" and overreliance on ratings in the SEC's rules. "These requirements - which accord privileged status only to ratings from certain firms - have served to elevate ... ratings to a status that does not reflect the actual purpose, much less the limitations, of credit ratings," she said...
...rebels, still indulges in periodic bouts of royal-bashing, often to paper over the increasingly apparent shortcomings of its own rule. As fuel lines in Kathmandu stretch more than 2 km and power cuts ravage the country, the Maoists announced last month their intention to form a commission to revisit the massacre eight years after it happened, tightening the screw on the lingering survivors of the 250-year-old monarchy. (See pictures of Nepal's Maoist camps...