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...tasks. They work for different parts of the University and they live in cities and towns throughout the Boston area, in other parts of the country and in other parts of the world. In any given week, there are as many as 1,200-1,500 individuals working in short-term positions on the University's casual payroll. Who is hired for these positions and how much they are paid is at the discretion of local managers...
...Sunday, Cornell visits Cambridge in an effort to gain respect among Ivy League critics. The Big Red (2-15, 1-3 Ivy) have been nothing short of awful this season. Losers of 13 of their last 14, the beleaguered squad hopes to add to its lone Ivy League win against Brown last Saturday...
...externs knew little about their sponsors. They had only received a short description of the sponsors' jobs when they applied for the program...
...short, for most of my life, time-telling has been de-divinized. I find it hard to take being on time when there is usually so much variation between people s watches and clocks, often a window of up to 15 minutes. Rushing doesn t make that much sense if you are pretty much guaranteed that the time on your watch doesn t correspond exactly to your date s. If people are on time according to their own watches, does that make it O.K.? In reality though, at school, my internal clock keeps me on time. If I am ever...
...approach with the awesome possibility of fellowship. They are self-perpetuating, insulated from outside pressure not only from the students and the public at large, but even from any groundswell in the alumni body, in contrast with the overseers, who are elected by the alumni at large. In short, if they are going to change, they are going to have to want to change themselves...