Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...observance of the Passover holiday, kitchen staff served matzo instead of dinner rolls, leading to crunchy interludes between speakers last night. But those in attendance didn't seem to mind...
Yesterday's game against Boston University was supposed to allow the Crimson to have some out-of-league fun at the end of the season. Instead, with rain postponing a good portion of its schedule, Harvard found itself with an unnecessary distraction in the midst of an Ivy League championship race...
Then again, this year the Council has not invited a Violent Femmes clone to Springfest. Instead we have Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, whose music tries to revive swing--which, as a popular music, has been dormant for some 50 years now. With the help of several similar bands--most notably Squirrel Nut Zipper and the Brian Setzer Orchestra--and the applause of countless conservative culture warriors, they've been fairly successful. However, it's worth asking if their music is really so different from that of the Violent Femmes of the world...
...present and offensive in a particular situation. It can be subtle; it can be institutionalized; and it can even appear within his column. Before Oppenheim presumes to surmise how "grateful" the Asian American Association (AAA) should be at his efforts to analyze the situation, he might instead consider why there needs to be an AAA on campus in the first place...
What will I enjoy in the future? Will I still want, come November, to go to China instead of Chicago for Thanksgiving? Will I want to be married in six years when Memorial Church is free, or graduate exactly on time to validate the hotel bookings? The haphazard can't be easily planned. So what happens when our lives catch up with our reservations...