Word: succeeding
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...College’s only universally required class, Expository Writing, promises to teach you to craft lucid, beautiful prose, to state your ideas with complexity and nuance, and to call your teacher a “preceptor.” It will succeed in at least one of these. The Fates predetermine the semester in which you take Expos 20 and then determine which of your preferences you’ll be assigned to. Escape is impossible and transferring sections is difficult, so your initial choice is important and you have precious little information on which to base it. Enjoy...
...social entrepreneurship” while he writes a book on his City Year experiences. Martin, who was press secretary for then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in the mid-1990s, will lead a study group titled “Capitol Hill 101: The Skills Needed to Succeed.” “I’m looking forward to taking in Harvard through the eyes of a Republican,” Martin said. Moose, a former ambassador to Benin and Senegal who was a top State Department official in the Clinton administration, will lead a study group...
...changing the rules, Harvard may succeed in opening its gates wider to kids who don't get to spend their junior years perfecting their essays. NACAC and other colleges aren't pushing to end early admissions altogether. But after its vote in October, the shouts of "I got in!" may have to wait at least until senior year begins...
...clearly affirm the value of a faith in God -and a God built on reason. "While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them," he said. "We will succeed in doing so only if reason and faith come together in a new way, if we overcome the self-imposed limitation of reason to the empirically verifiable, and if we once more disclose its vast horizons...
...agreement to govern alongside Hamas, but the Palestinian Authority president has limited political authority even over his own Fatah movement. It's far from clear that the unity agreement will do much to arrest the deteriorating relations between Fatah and Hamas on the ground, and whether it can succeed in restoring the control of a single security force on the streets of Gaza, where competing militias now hold sway. Hamas will expect Abbas to deliver the release of some of its top political leaders recently detained by Israel as the price for any negotiations with Olmert, while Israel will demand...