Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some wonder why Harvard needs an entire company, as opposed to simply owning diverse investments in a variety of companies. Will the acquisition be profitable, they...
...Others wonder why Harvard paid so much for a company with total assets worth only $345.5 million and with a $4.4 million net income...
Many mention a relationship between the amount they smoke and how stressed they're feeling. Kassam states, "The amount I smoke goes up and down with the stress factor in my life." Overall, the testimony of smokers is evidence that Harvard really is psychologically stressful, and it's a wonder more students haven't picked up the habit...
...feminist causes. Many students at Harvard-Radcliffe seem to believe that the women's liberation movement has run its course and that the struggles of women are no longer relevant to their lives. Sometimes, after lengthy budget negotiations, scrambles for room assignments and 8 a.m. poster runs, we even wonder the same thing. There are moments when we, too, ask the question: why, now that women are athletes, science concentrators, presidents of student societies and date initiators, do we still need Take Back the Night...
These Hollywood-style celebrations seem meaningless even to East Coast Jews, so it's no wonder Israelis found them difficult to stomach. More than a celebration, they seem to be a cultural imposition of American ideals--of celebrity and ostentatiousness--upon the rough-hewn world of the sabra (native Israeli). Many American Jews like to play down the differences between themselves and Israelis, but the New York intellectual will never be of the same mind as the organic kibbutznik. Philip Roth, this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, makes exactly this point in Operation Shylock, in which...