Word: paces
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first time in three games, a Harvard opponent managed to keep pace with the Crimson’s white-hot bats...
...about whether the grim forecasts were true, but in the past five years or so, the serious debate has quietly ended. Global warming, even most skeptics have concluded, is the real deal, and human activity has been causing it. If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem...
...part because of these digressions, "Inside Man" has a far more leisured pace than most thrillers. However, the storyline is interesting enough that Lee doesn’t need to blow something up every couple minutes to hold our attention. In fact, the violence is fairly minimal; most of the drama is created by people’s strained and intense conversations...
...House stems from the fact that there is a community at your fingertips that is infinitely more valuable than a response paper. It’s not that solitude and self-reflection isn’t important–alone time is valuable, especially at Harvard, where the pace of life is so fast that you barely have a chance to breathe. But it’s only for so long that you are within 30 yards of a House full of pretty incredible people, and, with only two-and-a-half months left to go until Commencement, I regret...
...still lingers in the back of his mind. Cheek confesses that the original plan was always to go somewhere else for a year and then move to Harvard. The admissions office told him that he’d be a great transfer student once he got readjusted to the pace of academic life.But a few months removed from the fateful day he received the rejection letter, Cheek contends that he doesn’t want to commit to anything too hastily.“To an extent, going to Harvard was a dream,” he explains...