Word: skipping
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...with a pool of student suggestions that ranged from DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. to Rabbi Sally Finestone, member of the University Ministry at Harvard-Radcliffe, Lewis announced in mid-March the first of two appointments: that of Diana L. Eck to head Lowell House along with her partner, Dorothy A. Austin...
...Faculty makes a major decision to aid the student strikers by allowing them to skip final exams and be graded solely on the basis of coursework handed in to date, or on a pass-fail basis. On May 8, 35,000 demonstrators rally on Soldier's Field. The same day, police peacefully disperse 650 demonstrators who begin to damage Shannon Hall, the headquarters of Harvard's ROTC program on Francis...
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., chair of theDepartment of Afro-American Studies, said theappointments are also a particular triumph for hisdepartment...
...TRUMAN SHOW (June 5). Truman Burbank is the only man on earth who doesn't know he's the star of a popular 24-hour soap opera. As Truman, Jim Carrey inhabits director Peter Weir's bogus universe with a heroic gentility. But will Carrey's rowdy fans skip Truman? Or will the audience that might appreciate an adult parable stay home because, hey, it's just a Jim Carrey movie? One industry savant says not to worry: this canny film will reach both groups and gross $200 million...
Feeling comfortably safe to move aroundCambridge with ease takes time, but inner-citystudents can skip the learning curve. When askedabout his home, a working-class neighborhood whereIrish Catholic families live alongside Vietnamese,African American, Haitian and Cape Verdean ones,Austin's reply resounds with the sarcasm ofstreet-savvy, "Have you ever seen the eveningnews...