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...transferred in previous semesters. The required meetings were not “Sex Signals” or anything of the like but simply relayed to us academic-related information that we needed to know. The rest of the week consisted of optional social events and meals. In turn, this set-up placed very little responsibility on Harvard’s administrative resources, adding only a minimal amount of work to their Freshman Week load...
...darker explanation for the spring offensive isn't about the past but the future. Obama officials have spied something like a set-up in Cheney's latest gambit. One of the Bush team's biggest talking points in its final days in office was an insistence that its greatest accomplishment was preventing a second attack in the years after Sept. 11. By laying down the charge now that Obama has made the country less safe, the Bush team may be able to point fingers of blame if a second attack ever comes...
...have spoken to many people who find this humiliating, comparing it to a walk of shame. But, faced with the prices of these events, they must continue to rely on SEF’s services. The stigma created by the current set-up works against SEF’s goals to even the playing field; a student’s financial means are a private and confidential matter, and the SEF should keep them that...
...barely keeping it together. He goes flying over his bike on the way to work, accidentally sprays a bag of coyote urine in his face as he cleans his backyard, and works with his snarky ex-wife (Catherine Keener). With this, the movie constructs the seemingly perfect set-up for an unlikely friendship between two men who desperately need comebacks. Lopez conveniently runs into Ayers on the street, and, fascinated, pens a series of columns about the experience. Later in the film, he brings Ayers to live in the LAMP Community for the homeless, and it is here that...
...experiment was surprisingly inexpensive: The whole set-up only cost about $15,000 - next to nothing for a piece of groundbreaking astronomical research. "Earthshine is such a simple idea that we have known about for such a long time," says Langford, "but it makes looking at Earth as a 'prototype' Earth-like planet so easy! An amateur astronomer could definitely take this data...