Word: leveler
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...There are some professors who place such a priority on their research that they seldom make time for undergraduates. But all members of the faculty are required to hold office hours or to be available through an appointment. Most professors welcome the chance to interact on a more personal level with their students. More often than not, we are the ones refusing to accept their open invitations...
...were generously giving of their time and energy. Some gave me copies of relevant papers they had written; others referred me to useful sources. Common to each encounter was a renewed sense of my place in this University. While I certainly did not feel I was at the level of any these professors, I was able to engage in an exchange of ideas with each one. My thesis journeys have helped me realize that this University is not just a collection of Ph.Ds preaching to a collection of students. It is a community of thinkers who can learn from...
...what about Miami? At 15 feet above sea level, most of the city should be safe even in the worst-case scenario of a three-foot rise in water level over the next hundred years. Cambridge would also survive such a rise. In the meantime, I hope the U.S. and E.U. can come to some understanding about the need for a meaningful deal. This is the world we're talking about here, and it wouldn't be fair to future generations of Harvard students if rising waters forced Eliot House and Winthrop House to relocate to the Quad...
...small businesses and help them strike better deals with suppliers of products and services. Along with greater convenience, exchanges offer prices 15% to 25% lower than a small business can negotiate on its own. Whether for buying office supplies or looking for payroll processing, the Internet is helping level the playing field for small businesses...
...that the political changes in Belgrade, and the rapprochement with the West those have precipitated, have put their own campaign for independence in geopolitical limbo. And suspicion naturally falls first on elements of the formally disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army, which have been accused of continuing a campaign of low-level violence against the territory's remaining Serb minority and also of backing a separatist guerrilla movement in the heavily ethnic-Albanian villages of the Presevo Valley just across the border inside Serbia...