Word: bit
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...Harvard Coach Chris Hafferty said he wasn't one bit disappointed with the Crimson's sixth-place finish, the second-best showing by an Eastern squad...
BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, debuting May 1, 9:30 p.m. EDT). Oprah Winfrey, a bit slimmer but just as soulful, reprises her starring role as Mattie in a weekly series based on her hit mini-series about women in an inner-city black neighborhood...
...rule prohibiting tenure offers to visiting professors. But that technicality did not blunt Bell's anger at the school's hiring policies, which he once characterized as an attempt to recruit people "who look black and think white." Bell, who is black, now concedes that the description was "a bit unfair." But he still sees a "gap between the school's saying 'We're trying as hard as we can for diversity' and the hiring record." That record fully supports Bell's complaint: despite the administration's attempts to increase minority representation, the law-school staff of 60 tenured faculty...
...quality of "all the World's a stage," or whatever metaphysical truth that motivates this action is not particularly clear. When emcee Lorenzo Miller, played nicely by Josh Tucker, comes into the audience and introduces members of it, and drops a few Pennypacker dorm jokes, it seems a bit forced. Some of the cracks about Harvard are funny, though...
...think the notion that [the poll] justifies putting Silber on the ballot is a bit inflated," said Daniel B. Payne, an independent Democratic consultant. "Silber still has to prove to a sizeable portion of the delegates that he has the values and ideals of the Democratic party," he added...