Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other movie, we would hate young Will Hunting. His perfection would be nothing short of irritating and boring. Yet Harvard golden boy Matt Damon sheds layer upon layers of complexity until finally we reach the core of his character near the movie's end. The film itself is nothing particularly exceptional. Director Gus Van Sant prefers a straight-up telling of the tale--there's little to distract you from the fable playing out on screen. --Soman S. Chainani...
...change in the diplomas bestowed upon female undergraduates would require a renegotiation of the 1977 agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe which delineated the responsibilities each institution had to its students. Given the uncertain role of Radcliffe as a college rather than as a research and support institution, such a renegotiation is long overdue, and recent articles in The Boston Globe and The Crimson indicate that the process might finally--if secretly--be underway. But Lewis was right to point out that it is not worth going through what would be a painful process in order to effect a minor change...
...time spring break rolled around, I was a sorry sight. All the hours I had spent indoors trying to churn out my thesis made me an even whiter shade of pale. My late night diet consisted of oreos that I washed down with Pepsi. Upon our final meeting, my adviser stopped in his tracks to ask me if I was all right. "You don't look so good," he told me. But all this did not matter when one thought came into my head--BAHAMAS...
...school admissions officers generally look favorably upon students who spend time in the professional world, and then decide to apply to Law School, she said...
...became the procedure for choosing the Head of State. At present the Governor-General, the representative of the Queen, is appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. The position is largely ceremonial, but the Governor-General has a constitutional role to play and can, in certain circumstances, draw upon the reserve powers of the Crown...