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...have built up a relationship with,” Hasty said. “I usually work with people whose writing I know and whose thought process I’m more familiar.” Although the waiting period varies, the quest for a tutor usually ends in triumph. Vivian M. Ku ’09 said she filled out a form to request a tutor for Life Sciences 1a, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology,” and received a reply after five days...
...were two groups of people in his camp. Those with convictions survived, and those who had no deep convictions died. The two groups who had convictions were the deeply religious?of whom he, a Catholic, was one?and the communists. They had the same unshakeable conviction that they would triumph. The others?famous doctors, talented musicians and so on?they would trade their food for cigarettes, knowing that if they did that, one morning they would not be able to go out into the cold for the roll call. But they had given up. The communists and the deeply religious...
...sweet triumph for the former college professor, who had been the first Congressman to challenge the red-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy. But the savor of March '68 didn't last long. Robert Kennedy defeated him in the June 5 California primary, then was shot dead that night. Hubert Humphrey, favorite of the party bosses, was nominated at a Chicago convention that was chaos inside, carnage on the streets. Richard Nixon won the general election, and the war raged another seven years...
...Allston is close to perfect. At the same time, we strongly warn against adopting alternate plans that will disrupt or fragment the College community. Though the movement into Allston promises to be a long and somewhat painful process, we are confident that it will be remembered as a great triumph for Harvard University and each of its branches...
...example. Like many women, Tyler put off her personal ambitions for the sake of child rearing. But now, after more than a decade of relative creative fallowness, she returns with Late Bloomer, which not only explores such hard choices with honesty and humor, but its very publication represents the triumph of desire over deferral...