Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people have come up to me in the Lowell Dining Hall asking me about it,” she said. “The responses were overwhelmingly positive.”Kyle E. D. Wiggins ’09, one such interested senior, echoed those sentiments, and said he was looking at TFA because of the financial crisis and the “stressful” job market.Meredith D. Boak, the TFA recruiter who covers Harvard, said that the financial crisis allowed the program “an opportunity to excite many more people.” She added that...
...went on to state that the Obama administration will work to fashion one. “Presumably better to have a joint strategy than to have none at all,” he said. Rubin, the director of studies at the Center on International Cooperation at NYU, echoed this sentiment. “The war is going almost on auto-pilot,” said Rubin, who returned from Afghanistan Nov. 26. He also said that the U.S. government has effectively created and continues to support a shadow state in Afghanistan by hiring private security guards, who are employed...
...Prevention and Response and the Crimson Key Society. He has the knowledge—he’s full of Harvard lore and claims to know what makes administrators tick. In short, he has many of the ingredients of a successful campus politician. But if historical precedent and student sentiment are any indication, he has some challenges yet to overcome. Both Schwartz and his running mate, Alneada D. Biggers ’10, are members of Final Clubs, the exclusive student groups which have a history of complicating political careers at Harvard. And the two, in their capacity as College...
...late William F. Buckley, Jr., himself a graduate of Yale, once famously remarked that he would prefer a government of the first 400 names in the Boston phone book to that of the Harvard faculty. Ancient collegiate rivalries aside, Buckley’s sentiment abides...
...currency reform," as a Treasury spokesman put it. The RMB has recently weakened against the dollar, raising global alarm bells that China might try to devalue it as a way to revive its gasping export sector, putting pressure on other exporters to weaken their currencies and stirring up protectionist sentiment in Washington - particularly among U.S. labor unions, which heavily backed President-elect Barack Obama. For its sake, China blandly replied that the recent fluctuations in the RMB market were in line with market forces...