Word: thingness
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...refine its priorities and reexamine its identity. “I think it forces us to ask who we are and who we intend to be,” Faust said. “We have to make very hard choices, we have to be willing to give some things up, and all of us are going to be finding ourselves doing things differently.” Despite all the financial constraints of the past year, the Faculty worked unhindered, Faust said, as she recited the many achievements made by members of the Faculty in the past year...
...indefinitely,” said BLS senior Gloria T. Chin. She added that the seniors were supposed to end school this Friday, but they will now not finish school until the following week. While Chin said she thought closing the school was “a smart thing to do,” not all students agreed. Chaofan Yuan, also a senior, said he found it annoying. “I’d rather that they not cancel school,” he said. “I’m not that panicked about the disease...
...After all, the last thing we should be doing in a time of emergency is reading about it in a newspaper...
...sources,” said Kirkland Resident Elizabeth A. Cook ’10. “They should have informed us a lot earlier than they did.” But Kirkland students were appreciative of the response from the Kirkland community. “The most reassuring thing that happened was the response of our house masters,” said Michael J. Chance ’10. “Their response was a lot more reassuring than anything higher up.” But University administrators did reach out. Around 7:45 p.m., three hours after...
...same thing has happened with the truth commission that Pelosi so ardently wants, in order to investigate the Bush Administration's policies on torture. Obama has long resisted looking back, in part for what most people agree are shrewd political reasons. Pelosi, however, leaped at the Obama Administration's recent release of the Bush Administration's torture memos to renew her call for the commission. Republicans accused her of complacency with the policies at the time - turns out she was briefed on the extreme interrogation methods in September 2002 - and we all found ourselves looking back, combing through the records...