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...Sheila Blumstein, a highly regarded professor of cognitive and linguistic science, has been serving as Brown's interim president. She will return to teaching and research upon Simmons' arrival...
...with this closing thought. "Do I think Gwyneth Paltrow is a terrible person? No. Do I think she's the devil? Absolutely." Let there be no doubt, however, that I not only hate Gwyneth Paltrow, but I hate the very idea of Gwyneth Paltrow. Every time I chance upon her pouty, fresh-faced visage, salon-tended hair and clothes that you just know she didn't pay for, I feel my blood start to boil. I get the primal, irrepressible urge to jump on a cross-country bus to wherever she's shooting, run up to her in the middle...
...scared of what we can all predict would result. In a 1928 report, after all, President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, argued that students should never be allowed to control their housing for the same shameful reason: "Large communities tend towards cliques based on similarity of origin and upon wealth. Great masses of unorganized young men...are prone to superficial currents of thought and interest, to the detriment of the personal intellectual process that ought to dominate mature men seeking higher education...
...Voter News Service (VNS), a consortium of the five major news networks and the Associated Press, provides the exit polling data. On election days, it relies upon 40,000 poll-takers at key precincts throughout the country to paint a composite portrait of the nation's voting...
...race, Timon invites all his friends to one last feast. At the feast he blames them for their ingratitude, after which he leaves Athens, cursing the city and everyone in it. Timon finds a cave in the woods and is determined to live on roots, but all he finds upon digging is gold...