Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fathom the willpower it takes to make it through each day: to get out of bed, to eat or to talk. They have gone on to pick out classes, buy books at the Coop and turn in problem sets. I wonder if I could do the same job maintaining a focus on academics and other seemingly peripheral activities. They not only survived being assaulted, they have overcome it and have not allowed it to rule their lives...
Finally, Harvard should encourage diversity in the Houses, not stifle it. It's no wonder that so many long-serving masters want out. University Hall wants to make the Houses more uniform, from selecting tutors to making residential policies. The heavy hand of the Dean of the College means the masters have less control over the fate of their Houses...
...fathom the willpower it takes to make it through each day: to get out of bed, to eat or to talk. They have gone on to pick out classes, buy books at the Coop and turn in problem sets. I wonder if I could do the same job maintaining a focus on academics and other seemingly peripheral activities. They not only survived being assaulted, they have overcome it and have not allowed it to rule their lives...
...same can be said of the impassioned, impugned House managers, who, whatever the merits of their case, put a lie to the assumption that all politicians are driven solely by polls and survival instincts. One could wonder where their compass pointed, but no one mistook it for a weather vane. Henry Hyde argued that "there's no political profit in this. A President Gore would not be helpful to the Republican Party." But when Hyde faced the Senators, he challenged them to larger purposes: "I have always believed that there are issues of transcendent importance that you have...
...Buffett, the fabled investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, refuses to split Berkshire's A shares, which traded last Friday for $72,500 each. If stock splits add lasting value to a company, as today's fervor suggests, it's a wonder that Buffett is held in such high regard. His reputation, though, wasn't built by pandering to passing fads...