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...often forget that counties administer vital services and institutions: schools, libraries, parks, water and waste facilities, roads and transit systems, and even elections themselves. That these services directly impact citizens’ lives is all the more reason to hold local officials accountable. If nothing else, the enthusiasm??or the resentment—at having a college student in county politics ought to bring out the vote in Grafton County...
...transcript of an English class held around a pot of hot cocoa in Lamont Cafe. To ensure the reader’s comfort, Wood shies away from literary terminology, though more technical criticism lurks in the lengthy footnotes.When describing fruitful passages, Wood frequently interrupts himself with his own enthusiasm??“What a piece of writing this is!” or “What an amazingly blasphemous little mélange.” At times, his selections read like a “best of” edition of the Western canon?...
...with a crimson “Domus” on them, and Lino and his wife Anna and dozens of Eliot residents made the trek to the Bright Hockey Center to cheer on our housemates. That sense of community with athletes—of support, shared accomplishment, and collective enthusiasm??is unique to Harvard. At no other school where I applied would I have rubbed elbows (and shared a toaster) with a school’s greatest athletes. We often overlook this element of our good fortune at Harvard, so accustomed to excellence that we criticize athletes where...
...speak to you because of what I am hearing from post-doctoral fellows and students considering a career in basic research,” Faust said to the committee. “They see a future defined by new limits—not in ideas, energy, intelligence or enthusiasm??but in opportunity.”Harvard received $329 million in grants from the NIH last year, making it far and away the University’s largest source of federal research dollars.Congress is currently considering President George W. Bush’s budget proposal, which recommended the same...
...said. “You can be the generation that makes great things happen, that makes businesses and the people who lead them highly revered, highly trusted forces for good in the world.”Feeding off what he called the “excitement, energy, and enthusiasm?? of the crowd, as Chenault put it in a post-speech interview, he tried to broaden his audience’s horizons. “What I try to do is focus on some issues that will stretch people in their thinking,” he said...