Word: effective
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Crimson Cash enables students, in effect, to charge snacks to their parents. After the initial $75 is spent-I'm ashamed to say I'm already down to $52.97-you can charge added credit to your parents' Visa. This is a major draw...
...need to be at the top of your field. Professors need to publish or establish themselves outside of the Harvard community in order for Harvard administrators to consider them favorably. Tenure is a word with major ramifications at Harvard. Don't say it around professors, it has the same effect that the word "recruiting" has for seniors, or "MCATS" for juniors--it is just not pleasant to think about. Concerned about their future, professors must devote a large portion of their time to researching, writing, inventing, and finding the cure for AIDS and the rest of the world's diseases...
Before I came to Harvard I taught at an independent school in New York City. The parents in that school, like many in other places, included many "interfaith couples"--people who had, in effect, crossed sectarian lines (often risking the censure of their families and religious communities) to make their commitments to each other. They were highly intelligent, sensitive people, superbly capable of juggling ambitious careers and complex family lives. But, almost to a couple, they quickly found themselves managing their spiritual differences by factoring religion out of the family equation altogether...
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck makes a now-famous remark to the effect that, if you know only one language, basically you don't know any language at all: since you can't imagine that your own cunning little world has a boundary, the idea of stepping beyond it seems nonsensical, and so you can't begin to fathom the existence of other worlds. Her apt application of this metaphor to the experience of religion, though, finds a more comfortable home in our minds than in our collective stomach lining. No one would dispute...
Following the actual story is almost secondary to the experience of following the movement, watching the cause-effect reactions on the screen, and just feasting on the rich atmosphere. Since the film is subtitled, there is, unfortunately, always the decision whether or not to read the dialogue and often, the subtitles can distract from the visuals. In fact, it is better to ignore the dialogue, and simply watch...