Word: wanes
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...final edition of In the Mix. I would wax nostalgic, but then I'm not sure of how successful this has been. For that matter, I'm not even sure anyone reads this column. It's not even columnar in shape, damn it. Maybe I'll just wane nostalgic. Wane. Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent...
...opened his eyes for the first time in 22 days! That was in January. Now, four months later, he's making slow progress back. Though he still has the tracheotomy and feeding tube, he is breathing on his own. But the effects of the Aricept are beginning to wane: some days he recognizes me, some days not. He still can't walk. And sometimes he gets so angry at all the tubes, he tries to yank them out. I have no idea what he thinks--if he's happy with me or furious...
...classmates. A senior and Spring Weekend veteran agreed. "Right now I am tired. I don't even want to be here but I feel like I should be," Moises Zamora laughs at three o'clock on Saturday night as the noise on campus is just beginning to wane. Forty miles away in Cambridge, bio and orgo books are finally shut for the night...
...says Branegan. "They have a business to run, and the NRA doesn't have to worry as much about public relations." And although NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre seems to enjoy his newly visible role as media enforcer, it's hard to predict whether his pleasure will wane if he looks around in the not-too-distant future and notices the NRA has been stranded, alone out in hard-line right field...
...time for self-edification, shielded from the more crass concerns of the rat race, has been under assault for years. From the increasingly heated resume-padding battles of the extracurricular sphere, to the proliferation of pre-professional courses, the purely liberal education has long been on the wane--especially here at Harvard. However, not until the TECH, has the rejection of liberal pedagogic ideals been so explicit...