Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, the task of twice shutting down the ECAC's seventh leading scorer, freshman Andrea Kilbourne, looms ahead. Kilbourne's killer instinct has seated her third in the league in game-winning goals...
...Harvard, the task of twice shutting down the ECAC's seventh leading scorer, freshman Andrea Kilbourne, looms ahead. Kilbourne's killer instinct has seated her third in the league in game-winning goals...
These are but two examples of an instinct that leads students to take courses and read books in familiar subject areas instead of exploring unfamiliar departments and disciplines. I plead guilty to this instinct: A native Californian, I enrolled last spring in Literature 120, "Cityscapes: Los Angeles" when I could have instead studied algorithms or ancient history...
...speech at Harvard, the University of Chicago's Allan Bloom put his finger on this modern instinct of university students by way of analogy. Today's students, Bloom argued, are akin to the dogs of Plato's Republic, who are warm with friends and fierce toward enemies for no other reason than familiarity with the former and ignorance of the latter...
That's just the sort of killer instinct Hollywood loves: an unerring commercial sense at the price of a street vendor's Rolex. Time will tell if Ritchie is the real goods. But as LS&2SB proves, he can blast out 107 minutes of hard, dark...