Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From his vantage point in Rome, where he has lived for two years, Leavitt views the Esquire flap with a mixture of irritation and bemusement. "I wish the story had been published," he says, sipping a cup of cappuccino at a Neapolitan cafe near the Chamber of Deputies. "I think it would have gotten a lot of attention as a story, and not as a news story." He doubts that any automobile ads would have been pulled from the magazine if his story had appeared in its pages. "Do you know how many gay men own Jeeps...
Carnesale will certainly be bringing enough experience and know-how to Los Angeles to deal with the problems facing the comparatively enormous UCLA (35,000 undergrads as compared with Harvard's 6,400). And though we are sorry to lose his leadership here, we wish him the best of luck in Los Angeles County...
...requirements of Summa to the grades a student receives in electives, the administration effectively pushes students to take electives only in topics they find easy. Moreover, if distribution requirements within electives are enforced for Summa nomination, the students who are genuinely intrigued by their field of concentration and wish to pursue it further would be punished. Therefore, at its core, the system of taking electives into account in calculating Summa is flawed...
...didn't know that I broke it," Prestifilippo admitted. "But I sure wish that I could have traded...
...WELL, I WISH IT WERE A MORE dramatic story..." So begins Professor of History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in describing the discovery of the diary that led to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale. On the contrary, her fifteen-year journey from the discovery of eighteenth-century midwife Martha Ballard's diary to the Boston premiere of Laurie Kahn-Leavitt's film production of her story, is a tale in itself...