Word: wishfully
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...certainly wish Harvard wouldn’t do this,” said Mriganka Sur, Fairchild professor of neuroscience and head of MIT’s department of brain and cognitive science. “I am certain MIT will do all it can to keep him here...
...wish Stephen J. Gould would rise again—as that other brilliant Jewish innovator allegedly did 2,000 years ago—and deliver us, once and for all, from some of the latter’s less bright present-day followers...
...Washington, argues that board performance will improve as long as minority recruiting is part of a larger move to choose directors based on skills rather than title. Before last year, Cabral says, she got perhaps one phone call a month from someone looking for a Hispanic director, and the wish was almost always for a well-known figure with board experience at a marquee company. Now the calls come every week, and the primary desire is for expertise in, say, finance or marketing...
...spite of this, a few members of Lowell House have decided to grant the President's wish. Informed quarters suspect a more practical purpose. According to them, it is hoped that the President of the United States will lend his support to the pleas of quite des- perate Bellboys that the bells be exiled to the basement to Memorial Hall, where they can be tolled during examination periods...
Whether University officials see fit to override a wish of their distinguished alumnus remained a debatable question tonight. It is expected that Professor Coolidge will again have the job of maintaining cordial relations between Mr. Roosevelt and the bells...