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...Mendana tells us, is that of looking back. The axiom, "Remember Lot's Wife, avoid the backward glance," dictated Charlotte's life until Marin disappeared. And then despite her outward ignorance of the world around her--her desire for this child like protection from life--the past is unwillingly thrust upon her as an explanation for the present complications. But for a person who has always believed that things work out fine in the end, the rising to the surface of past failures is the ultimate blow. "It wasn't the way she thought it was either," Leonard says...
...capacity for independent critical judgment and the synthesis of new knowledge. For this, students need opportunities to observe mature minds at work, to use their own maturing judgment in the reflective consideration and interrelation of facts and ideas, and to refine their personally developed concepts in the cut-and-thrust of intellectual discussion...
Brown invades the Business School Field this afternoon with a lot hanging in the balance. First, Harvard badly needs a win over the Bruins to thrust itself back into the battle for league honors...
...takeoff?and every major control system has backups in case it should fail. Pilots wax eloquent about the aircraft they fondly call "Fat Albert." Says one Delta captain: "Old Albert is straightforward and honest on the ground and in the air. I've got about 200,000 Ibs. of thrust on four little levers. You've got to be careful because you can blow a hangar off the ground. Another thing, you've got 350 tons of momentum when you're taxiing, and you don't go cowboying around. But once it's airborne, it's an absolutely superb flying...
...whole, this program is indeed comprehensive, and its thrust is in the right direction. But it contains some serious errors and omissions that ought to be rectified. They fall into three main categories...