Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More often than not, we students walk with our heads down and our minds full, thinking of exams, problem sets and papers that are soon due, "as if we had the weight of the world on our shoulders," my first-year proctor used to missing that Harvard, the Harvard of calm, walks and glistening lights, the Harvard that has survived for more then three centuries--the Harvard...
...their best efforts still cannot prevent the sequence from dragging under the weight of the long speeches by Don Juan and the Devil. While the philosophical discussion is crucial to understanding Shaw's purpose in writing this play, it also interrupts the action and tends to lose the audience's interest. As the Statue puts it, "This is extremely abstract and metaphysical, Juan. If you would stick to the concrete and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow." While this remark shows that he has completely...
...Markhasev is "very candid, very straightforward." His world view, though, has been practically Dostoevskian ever since he turned 15 and learned a secret about his father that the family won't discuss. The hard-working student with good grades was transformed overnight. Now, says Kavinoky, "he sees that the weight of the world is against him and that regardless of who did what, when, where or how, he's going to be the one to pay the price. He's going to do the rest of his life in jail." In detention Markhasev is never far away from Latino gang...
...happened at these schools was a mystery to no one. Blacks and Hispanics generally do not do as well as whites and Asian Americans on law boards or have high grade-point averages, both factors which law schools--in the absence of other criteria, such as race--give enormous weight. "We foresaw this," says Michael Sharlot, dean of the U.T. law school, adding that "one has to distinguish between a surprise and a tragedy. We warned the Texas legislature about this. It's a disaster...
Orlistat is not the only weight-loss nostrum to target the mass market lately. Last year the FDA approved Redux, a drug that controls appetite by boosting levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, producing a sort of chemically induced illusion of being full. A similar medication, sibutramine, is expected to be approved soon. Both drugs have side effects, however, including fatigue and insomnia...