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...Dorchester resident Carol Downs was also averse to the idea of receiving e-mail notifications. “I have a computer [but] I get too much e-mail now. It really disturbs me. I like simple,” she said. One daily rider, Steven Dougan, explained his roundabout path home during some delays. “I would go all the way to Lechmere to catch a train home,” he said. And a Braintree resident, Sue A. Gill, said she has even abandoned land travel altogether to avoid T delays. “I [have...
...Joseph B. Martin said, “I want to be remembered first as a dean of students.” With this weekend’s announcement of HMS’s plan to double its expenditure on compensation for hospital-based teachers, Martin may have found a roundabout way to solidify that image in the eyes of HMS doctors for years to come. HMS currently budgets $8 million per year to pay its 7,000 Harvard-affiliated doctors. Unlike most medical schools across the country, Harvard does not run its own hospital; instead, HMS maintains relationships with teaching...
DAWKINS: I think that's a tremendous cop-out. If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested...
...will offer Tehran wide-ranging economic incentives, including the construction of a light-water nuclear reactor (which is difficult to use for bomb fuel) and the supply of reactor fuel. It would also offer Iran membership of a Gulf region security body whose principles include non-interference - a very roundabout way of addressing the issue of security guarantees...
...Reid professor of English and American literature. “I learned nothing from the evaluations that I got this fall.”“The process that you are implementing is not deeply considered,” Fisher concluded, to applause.In the end, after a roundabout debate over parliamentary procedure, the Faculty voted 59-53 to postpone a vote on the measure for a future meeting.Even if a vote had been taken yesterday, however, it would not have been binding. Near the meeting’s outset University President Lawrence H. Summers asked whether a quorum?...