Word: wishfulness
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...raised through contributions for three main purposes. A cash prize will be given each year to an undergraduate with a disability who exhibits Wilson's qualities of courage, brilliance, and kindness and has made a contribution to the life of the College. The recipient will then be granted a "wish list" of equipment he or she feels will aid disabled students here at Harvard...
Beep. "Mom, Dad," says a 19-year-old, "I'm sorry, but I'm gay. And I will never, never change." Beep. "I just want to say I'm sorry," sobs a young woman, who says she caused an automobile accident that killed five people. "I wish I could bring them back." Beep. "I wish I had someone to share this with," murmurs a man, revealing the secret pleasure he gets from wearing his wife's clothing...
Summer research can prove invaluable to those students who wish to pursue exotic--and not so exotic--topics for their theses...
...Some members of our committee...believe that Harvard, which refuses to own stock in some companies because it does not wish to be associated with particular economic activities (gambling; prostitution), should seriously consider placing the production and sale of cigarettes in that category," according to an internal memo written by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR). The ACSR is a panel of faculty, students and administrators which advises the Corporation on ethical investing...
...presidency was the founders' alternative to and improvement on monarchy. But it is the Europeans who have devised the solution to the problem of the encroachment of monarchical norms on democratic values: they kept their monarchs and stripped them of power. That way the wish for some kind of symbolic family is satisfied, while the politicians run the democracy. In the U.S., on the other hand, monarchical and presidential roles have been fused. The result is the absurd institution of the First Family, an ersatz royal family decked out in republican garb and capital letters...