Word: problems
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...YORK--I have a problem with traveling. Well, not traveling itself. I love traveling. It's the process that seems to trip me up. I've gone to the wrong airports, had my luggage arrive late, had my luggage sent to other places (specifically Nebraska) and been told that my seat on the plane did not exist. It's the running joke in my family: The Harvard kid can't even make it to the airport...
...problem they saw was with technical issues," he said. "The decision doesn't suggest that Harvard's behavior was appropriate. It merely says that, because of part of the language, it is necessary to have another trial...
...problem, instead, is the other aspects of life that suffer when a student starts to prioritize ambition and advancement above family and friends. When students choose to throw themselves wholeheartedly into a job far from home, they may gain valuable experience, but there is a tradeoff--they lose the close interaction and involvement with family and friends that were the hallmark of their life before they came to college...
...Like almost all mobile phones, my Nokia 6160 has a wonderful way of remembering phone numbers. Over the course of a year some of my most important numbers have ended up in the phone. The problem is that there's no way to get the personal phone book off the Nokia, despite an infrared port at one end that looks like it should be able to "beam" the numbers to a Palm or other infrared device. Unless, of course, I copy them out by hand...
...Globe's ineptitude in handling its columnists and their sins, real or imagined, reminds me of the vicious incompetence of the novice Clinton White House in dealing with its candidates for attorney general. First, there was Zoe Baird, with her untaxed-nanny problem. The Clintons showed her the door and brought in Judge Kimba Wood for an audition. Wood did have similar domestic help, but unlike Baird, had meticulously followed the law in paying taxes. The difference between Baird and Wood was the difference between a person who disobeyed the law and one who obeyed it. In other words, there...