Word: exceptional
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...Except, of course, if you believe that a liberal arts education should be untainted by the specter of naked greed. Ostensibly, the undergraduate experience is an opportunity to contemplate life's higher questions and learn to appreciate its more refined pleasures. Admittedly, the notion that college is a time for self-edification, shielded from the more crass concerns of the rat race, has been under assault for years. From the increasingly heated resume-padding battles of the extracurricular sphere, to the proliferation of pre-professional courses, the purely liberal education has long been on the wane--especially here at Harvard...
...blunter critic would just call it a melodramatic contrivance. There is evidence of research into both the history and psychology of memory (she retells the story of Simonides, the Greek lyric poet who invented the art of memory), but in the end the book says little about memory, except that we can on occasion have a love-hate relation with our own sense of the past. At one point Jonathan wonders whether it might have been better if both he and Hazel had lost memory. Livesey has rightly called into question the value of memory per se, but only after...
...hangers-on and make that one big extended clan. The love-in began over a breakfast of crispitos sometime one early morn. After much consideration, we decided to stop bitching about corruption and image and simply embrace the joys of cohesion. With gusto, FMers gave up all other plans (except maybe mullets) and began to create a life together...
...slide thongs: Paired with trendy-trendy three-quarter length capris, you're all dressed up with nowhere to go, Except maybe a sandbagging party during the next major flood...
...JEAN: I am not into spending a lot of money on my clothes. I like to buy things second-hand. I don't really think there is any specific brand name that I depend on except when it comes to bras and underwear. In terms of dressing myself in the morning, I have been aiming for lots of color lately. Color, color...