Word: towards
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Radcliffe offers extracurricular activities and organizations for women, not academic opportunities. Radcliffe is in no way a part of my or any Harvard woman's journey toward receiving a degree here. It doesn't have a faculty; it doesn't offer classes for degree-seeking credit. It's not that kind of institution. And the women who want to keep it around aren't asking for it to become...
...group starts toward University Hall, leaving a camcorder-toting woman behind. Like thousands of cinematographers before her, she's struggling to find a way to convey the massiveness of the library. And as her shot pans through my body, it strikes me that I've played supporting roles in literally dozens of these Cambridge video diaries. Just how many home movies, how many photo albums have I stumbled into, I wonder...
...looking old man on the approach. He's wearing a disheveled shirt and tie under a new-looking waterproof jacket, lugging a plastic bag full of garbage satchel-style over his shoulder and holding a half-dozen copies of the Gazette in his other hand. He's plodding steadily toward the statue and as he makes his way past it--get a load of this--he salutes...
Holbrooke is generous in praising his colleagues. In particular, his appreciation of Secretary of State Warren Christopher's contribution should go a long way toward countering the scathing criticisms of Christopher's stewardship that were fashionable at the time. Christopher gave Holbrooke an "unprecedented degree of flexibility" and was always prepared to wade in himself if needed. He emerges as one of the heroes of this strange epic...
...chaotic emergency room or in the junk-filled scrubland between a black housing project and a shabby white neighborhood, that yes, this is what such a backwater would look like, sound like, smell like. And that this, as events of Price's long, heavy narration grind toward resolution, is how people sheltering in such a place would claw at one another and disintegrate...