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...With a mere six months remaining in the University's five year, $2.1 billion capital campaign, Harvard has only raised about $20 million of its $40 million goal for interfaculty initiatives...
...With a mere six months remaining in the University's five year, $2.1 billion capital campaign, Harvard has only raised about $20 million of its $40 million goal for interfaculty initiatives...
However, this near-sighted approach neglects the very qualities of a "nebulous" conception of blocking. Each student's unique first-year experience produces an infinitely diverse array of personal bonds. Reducing any particular network of friendships to mere factors of size of intimacy ignores their individual richness and worth. It is up to each individual student--through personal introspection and open dialogue--to determine the ideal blocking group. The end result might happen to be a large, small, tight-knit or diffuse group. It could mean a group that encapsulates one's entire social circle or one that exists solely...
What struck Bagemihl most is those forms that go beyond mere sexual gratification. Humboldt penguins may have homosexual unions that last six years; male greylag geese may stay paired for 15 years--a lifetime commitment when you've got the lifespan of a goose. Bears and some other mammals may bring their young into homosexual unions, raising them with their same-sex partner just as they would with a member of the opposite...
What drove Des McAnuff into allowing such a stunning, moving and magnificently consuming musical to be dissected into a mere fraction of what it once...