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...there is no God.…” over Philosophy 174, “Matter in the Universe” over Chem. 10. Until the enrollment of the most difficult Core courses begins to swell and that of the easier ones begins to wane, it is difficult to take seriously the frequently heard line that Core courses are watered-down and lack difficulty...
...Then, even as the deals - and with them the buyers - were retreating back into the shadows in November (the wane of the keep-America-rolling sales push was behind Thursday's retail-sales bummer that took October's 6.4 percent spike and turned it into a 3.4 percent drop) carmakers are doing just what we want everybody else to do. They're refilling their lots. Production of automobiles and parts jumped a whopping 6.4 percent in November, taking the edge off the rest of the manufacturing sector's stubborn statistical lethargy...
...importantly, I became suspicious of other Harvard students. Seeing the utter vacuity to which some could stoop for even the most insignificant of goals, I began to mistrust anyone who would even casually accost me. Often such interactions would uncover a networker red-handed, as I watched their interest wane with satisfaction as I divulged my concentration (“Physics?! What do you do with that?”). I’d be damned if any palm-greasing, name-dropping, yarn-grubber would squeeze even the time of day out of me, and as a result I seldom...
...high school’s wane, though, I’d gained sufficient distance to be granted a review of Strange Little Girls, Amos’ 2001 effort, for the Village Voice. The writing I’d done for them up until that point was a cache of femaleness, stemming largely from my avowed interest in feminism. By some accident of good luck, I’d already been assigned to write about Amos when Atlantic Records announced that the album would be a collection of covers written by men like Eminem and Tom Waits and bands like Slayer...
Tuesday morning, September 11th began as a routine day for the nation's air traffic system. The delay-producing thunderstorms of the summer had begun to wane, the healthy passenger loads of June, July and August had dropped off with the start of the school year, and the economic slowdown had caused most major airlines to cut back on the number of flights, easing even more the usual airborne congestion...