Word: whims
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...soon enough. All year, seniors have been socializing with their classmates at Senior Bar, a suggested itinerary of certain bars to go on any given night. Emulating their elders, juniors have now established their own Junior Bar. “My friends and I started it up on a whim,” said Jade M. Reichling ’09, one of Junior Bar’s founders. “Senior Bar is to reconnect with all the seniors. Why wait until senior year when we can do more reconnecting and bonding starting junior year...
...different customers in a different set of cities--but they can work together as needed. Virgin Atlantic, V Australia and Virgin America, for example, plan to share a first-class lounge at LAX and thus reduce overhead. Virgin America, V Australia and Virgin Blue can decide on a whim to allow some of their flight attendants to trade cities for a year or compare notes--as their CEOs did during lunch with Branson in Los Angeles--on in-flight-ordering software or customer feedback on the latest Embraer jets. Coordinated online booking among the airlines is the next logical step...
...grades so that my parents or the school didn’t bother me, and I skated every morning and night. Sometimes I came to school with a pelvis knocked out of alignment. I never really hung out with anybody, but I ran for student council president on a whim and won. Then the person who was in charge told me that they were giving it to another guy who would show up for the meetings. I couldn’t argue with him.11.FM: You started skateboarding after seeing “Back to the Future...
Both campaigns have acknowledged that neither can win without the support of superdelegates, those 795 Democratic Party leaders granted floating votes that they may pledge or switch at a whim. But if the most inexperienced members of Congress are intimidated by the gravity of the situation, they're certainly not showing it. Despite being wooed heavily by both the Obama and Clinton camps, nearly half of the 40 House members and six of the eight Senators are still undecided. Some may still be holding out for promises, some are just slow in the deliberative process and some have made...
...might proffer.Of course, the process of education does not and should not terminate with the receipt of the sheepskin on commencement; certainly, even the most experienced of professors gain from hearing the insights of their most talented students. But to carry this logic to its extreme, and install the whim of students as the arbiter of course instruction, is manifestly imprudent.The perspective that puts students and masters on the same intellectual plane distorts the proper order of education.Traditionally the purpose of university is to maintain and pass on intact to rising generations the vast treasury of knowledge that our civilization...