Word: spokenness
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...that no matter what it is it was doing, the UC would always be there to shaft me.” Although Washburn’s flight was delayed in the end so that missing the shuttle became merely a minor inconvenience for him, he said that he had spoken to several students who faced more serious problems. “While I was there at least eight people who had already bought tickets were turned away because there wasn’t enough room for their luggage,” he wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson...
DIED. JAMES INGO FREED, 75, soft-spoken New York architect who catapulted to international fame as the much hailed designer of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, above, in Washington; of complications of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. Freed, an migr from Nazi Germany who became the longtime business partner of I.M. Pei, designed, among other things, Manhattan's sprawling Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Washington's Ronald Reagan Building. Of the Holocaust Museum's hexagonal, skylighted Hall of Remembrance, he said, "Light is the only thing I know that heals. People at the camps said...
...Heimert had spoken out against expanding the History and Literature department, which some considered elitist and too selective, warning that if the department opened up its enrollment, the student-faculty ratio would rise...
Though far better-spoken, handsomer, and much more Georginian, Sam has expressed excitement at being looked on in the same favorable manner that fellow Sports-defecter Evan R. Johnson currently is. Shouldn’t be too hard to top that though, since Sam has already proven himself more than capable at not ruining our eardrums...
Secondly, the vast continent of Africa teems with over 1,000 languages of varying currencies. A choice of four, even if they are among the most widely spoken, is incomplete, arbitrary, and of limited utility. Studying one of these languages means that at an early stage in his intellectual journey a student would be confined to concentrating on the narrow region where this language is used. It makes much more sense for a student of Africa to satisfy himself with his knowledge of English or French—two of the continent’s much more far-reaching lingua...