Word: presenters
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...person who was present at the meeting said SAC members "emphasized the idea that students should be running things and that staff should be in a support role...
...loss of infinite opportunities for heroic deeds. "Don't kill the messenger," goes the saying, but today such advice is unnecessary because, for the most part, there are no messengers. If the Greeks had e-mail, Boston would not have its marathon. Likewise, the strong-souled stoicism of our present day couriers, who "come rain or snow or sleet or hail," is becoming obsolete, only to be replaced with a decidedly unheroic form of communication. The midnight e-mail of Paul Revere is not the stuff of epic poetry...
...many administrators in Harvard's science departments, while reporting underrepresentation of non-Asian minority students in their respective fields, present contrasting ideas about how to increase participation among those groups...
Several students who were not present when their rooms were searched said they were not told how to retrieve their confiscated items, or even that anything was taken...
...Whether or not Americans are oblivious about the past, it's troubling that they seem relatively heedless about the way that others may see them in the present. The New York Times has done an interesting roundup piece about "a growing backlash of anti-Americanism in Europe, especially in France, where a member of parliament named No?l Mam?re has written a book called "No Thanks, Uncle Sam," a catalogue of American gaucheries and moral derelictions ranging from too much crime and too many guns to capital punishment to inadequate health care for the poor. For all of my life, Europeans...