Word: wakefulness
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...school year, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith announced yesterday. This increase is the smallest the College has seen in seven years. The College’s financial aid budget is also set to expand by 21.4 percent to $125 million in the wake of last year’s sweeping reforms aimed at increasing affordability for middle-class and upper-middle class families. These reforms include eliminating student loans and expanding the financial aid program to include families making up to $180,000 per year. “Over the last few years, Harvard...
...civil war, the aptly named Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) invaded Tibet. The New York Times and other international media outlets covered the desperate radio broadcasts of a “shocked” Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and political leader, in the wake of invasion. Yet Mao got away with it, much like Stalin had gotten away with his construction of puppet regimes from the Baltic to the Adriatic after World...
...When you’re working on Iraq—whether you’re in Washington or Baghdad—you never wake up and think, what is the meaning of life? You have a purpose,” O’Sullivan said. “When you come back—it depends on what you’re doing—but a lot of people struggle with that kind of loss of purpose...
...promising things to them - another formulation long out of vogue. "For we have a choice in this country," he said. "We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the O.J. trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina, or as fodder for the nightly news ... We can do that," he goes on to say. "But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction ... And nothing will...
...Hillary Clinton on a few occasions, he's doing some damage, particularly in the African-American community, where he has lost some stature. He really seemed to have a feel for the plight of the African-American community, and a lot of that has been watered down in the wake of his campaign role of attacking Obama...