Word: wishfulness
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...clubs an ultimatum: Either admit women, or get off campus. They unanimously chose the second option. Then, in 1987, Lisa J. Schkolnick ’88 sued the Fly Club for unlawful discrimination, but a Massachusetts court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to force integration. Schkolnick almost got her wish anyway, though: In 1993, the undergraduate membership of the Fly voted unanimously to go co-ed, only to reverse its decision and choose “club unity over women” a year later after its graduate board strategically delayed the process in order to allow opinion to shift...
...professors who wish to publish a scholarly work will first contact publishing staffers in their subject area, who will then ensure that the work is published through several different media outlets—such as books, the Web, and the Harvard Business Review...
Wale: I think I might have loved football more than music for the majority of my life. It kind of fluctuates now, goes in and out now. Some days I wake up and just wish I were in training camp and some days I wake up glad that I’m about to get on the stage...
...Torry Hansen's desperate act. It was troubling enough to hear that she'd sent her adopted son back to his native Russia, arranging for 7-year-old Artyom Savelyev to fly to Moscow by himself, arriving on April 8 with a note from Hansen saying, "I no longer wish to parent this child." She was giving him up, the note explained, because he was "mentally unstable." But she wasn't giving up on her desire to be a mother. According to ABC News, Hansen, a registered nurse in Shelbyville, Tenn., was trying to adopt a child from another country...
...year-old founder. "I was astonished to discover that, despite the concerns of users and severe criticism from consumer activists, Facebook would like to relax data protection regulations on the network even further," the minister wrote. "Private information must remain private. Unfortunately, Facebook does not respect this wish." She then threatened to take down her own profile in protest...