Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tattenbaum said that although she is not interested in academia as a career, writing a thesis was exciting...
...atheist can live without fear of reproach for being open about their beliefs. Atheists are not monsters or ignorant anti-patriots. We are good citizens who value tolerance. I am also proud to say that on the average we are highly intelligent. Atheists have unusually high numbers in academia and science. This is why so many of the more outspoken atheists have joined to defend science and reason in the classroom from creationists, anti-science postmodernists and all those who would conveniently brush aside or suppress scientific findings that they find disagreeable...
Harvard is supposedly a school which will pump us full of the skills and credentials that can be used to make the world a better place. Taking advantage of all that Harvard has to offer is a great idea, but ensconcing oneself in a tower of elitism, academia and complacency...
Traditional careers like academia and law have seen a surfeit of new entrants. With the crisis in health-care costs, even the stability of medicine as a career seems in doubt. And the perverse outcome of America's obsession with higher education has resulted in a race among all for post-baccalaureate credentials while primary and secondary schools in urban communities stagnate, restricting the pool of students qualified to apply to Harvard...
...Jews, and Kawar is correct in nothing that Israel has complications in defining its national identity. But to characterize Israel as a theocracy represents a simplification of the myriad elements of identity at play: Jewish religious identity, Jewish ethnic identity and Israeli Statist identity. The fact that academia, the press, the public and the parliament (where both Arab and Jew are represented) can debate issues like the Law of Return reveals that Israel is a democracy in which supreme power is held by the people. To lump Israel with its neighboring anti-democratic governments is to ignore the fundamentally democratic...