Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students had about 22 years to prepare for their eventual profession? After all, graduation isn't a surprise. Upon entering the College, we learn the date that we will eventually (Ad Board permitting) leave. Yet when that expected date rolls around, few people have decided what career they wish to pursue...
...doubtful it is because you subscribe to the common Harvard misconception that community service is the extracurricular for future educators, sensitive do-gooders or pre-meds trying to pad their applications to graduate school. Students who already know what field they wish to enter, i.e. politics, feel their time is best served by running for Undergraduate Council. Rather than spend time with the people who public policy truly affects, undergraduates with political aspirations prefer to work with an artificial political body. Organizations like Debate Team demonstrate that students feel it is better to simulate the real thing rather than actually...
...comfort. He has written a book, Truth Versus Lies (to be published by Context Books in New York City), its chief aim is to assert his sanity. The book does not address the Unabomber crimes (nor does Kaczynski in person, for he is seeking a retrial and doesn't wish to damage his slim chances), but it is the most thorough accounting of his life to date...
...home lives, and our kids are worried about us. A new survey, "Ask the Children," conducted by the Family and Work Institute of New York City, queried more than 1,000 kids between the ages of 8 and 18 about their parents' work lives. "If you were granted one wish to change the way your parents' work affected your life," the survey asked kids, "what would that wish be?" Most parents assumed that children would want more time with them, but only 10% did. Instead, the most common wish (among 34%) was that parents would be less stressed and tired...
...wish I could rid myself of the premonition that somebody's going to get killed trying to measure Ron Perelman's waist. In August, Perelman, a billionaire who normally avoids speaking to the press, granted an interview to the New York Times. Apparently trying to alter the widespread public impression of him as a pudgy little bald guy surrounded by glowering security guards, Perelman said, "I do take a fat picture, but I've got a 28-in. waist...