Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Students who are so unfamiliar with BCBS’s approach to abortion coverage that they are not already aware of the opportunity for the refund are not those students strong enough in their convictions (or familiar enough with this issue) to make a wise and socially conscious decision regarding this element of health insurance. It is easy to imagine a student who is not sexually active or who engages in only the safest modes of intercourse choosing to opt for the refund because they cannot imagine themselves ever needing an abortion and find the idea of aborting disturbing...
...Being short a needed vote is not an unfamiliar position for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who made do without South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson for more than a year after he suffered bleeding in the brain. Still, Kennedy is an unparalleled force in the Senate, an engine for legislation that makes him - if judged by legislative productivity alone - the most important senator this half-century. Kennedy "has never felt that compromise is a dirty word and smart Republicans have recognized that," said Jim Manley, Reid's communications director...
...those of you who are unfamiliar with the history of “Fair Harvard”, Gilman’s 172-year-old hymn began with the phrase “Fair Harvard! Thy sons to thy jubilee throng!” Obviously, there is a gender-insensitive term there which prompted Kendric Packer ’48, to propose a contest to Harvard alums to provide a fitting alternative. Simply replacing “sons” with “children” had a belittling connotation and afforded one two many syllables to keep pace with...
...There is an odd comfort to this feeling. It is a way of a new recollection, one in which I am ever more conscious of the passing of time, of the reliving of a different memory away from concrete things and attached to unfamiliar things. The most valuable lesson college has taught me thus far has been the adaptability of memory, the transference of recollection to a new set of catalysts. The brilliance of memory is that it is undying, but the emotion of recollection is one that must be constantly learned, channeled, and relived...
...college” email address in additon to their existing “@fas” address. According to Undergraduate Council member Brian S. Gillis ’08 at yesterday’s CCL meeting, current College addresses are confusing to those outside Harvard, especially employers unfamiliar with what “FAS” stands for.“It obfuscates the relationship between student and college to the point where it hurts recruiting,” Gillis said. He added that unbeknownst to many, the process for this change in username extensions “doesn?...