Word: absents
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...Silences That Speak Volumes,” column, Feb. 13), I only hope he will be sitting in the first row. Kavulla obviously fancies himself a bastion of enlightened thinking, but his banal analysis strays far from Voltaire and merely highlights his inherent racism. Tolerance is obviously absent in Kavulla’s vision of world affairs which is why he fails to understand the severity of these images for Muslims across the globe. As he correctly states, the offensive images did not warrant firebombing and violent protest, but neither has their publication encouraged intelligent debate, perhaps the only worthy...
...RULE BY THE MOB’Many of the president’s backers said they were surprised by the strength of anti-Summers sentiment at the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting—which may explain why so many of his strongest supporters were absent from the session.“I mean, this was like someone having a heart attack,” said Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin. “This was not like the patient had diabetes and we knew there was a problem.”Allison Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, like...
...were on leave last semester. Do you feel qualified to be leading the charge after being absent during such a critical period? JR: That’s a good question, but I was on e-mail and I received most of the e-mails that were going back and forth. I read the minutes from Faculty meetings and individuals were also e-mailing me, so I had a sense of what was going...
...they also ask the participating therapists, usually roomfuls of Ph.D.s, to do things like repeat the word milk over and over (to show how meaningless words can become-try it with I'm depressed). And although Hayes teaches mindfulness at ACT workshops around the world, he epitomizes "the absent-minded professor," according to Barlow, the psychologist who taught Hayes at Brown in the '70s. Hayes is famous at Nevada-Reno for passing students in the hall without so much as a nod. But it's worse than they think. According to Hayes' wife Jacqueline Pistorello, in December the couple went...
...these developments are, I have a proposal for Mr. Zuckerberg. Mark, something is missing from your website. Something big. Every time I log onto Facebook (read: 30-some times a day) and scroll through my own profile, I feel as though an enormous piece of me is absent. Sure, listed are my interests, my favorite music and movies, and my favorite quote, but an entire element of my personality is left out: my aversions. We need a “grievances” section on our Facebook profiles. I realize that such a suggestion may seem a little negative...