Word: actualizing
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...believes that if the Council tackles the issue of advising and produces an actual advising system for the students at Harvard, many more issues which are serious concerns for students could be addressed in a friendly and more comfortable setting. For example, the eternal and yet most annoying debates on randomization and the Core could then be dealt with. Bakal recognizes that an advising system is the foundation of a higher quality of life in the University, a realization no one has had before...
There are, after all, four Gospels, whose actual writing, most scholars have come to acknowledge, was done not by the Apostles but by their anonymous followers (or their followers' followers). Each presented a somewhat different picture of Jesus' life. The earliest appeared to have been written some 40 years after his Crucifixion. Which was most accurate? Even Luther had a favorite Gospel (John) and appeared to regard the rest as less essential. And starting with the 1835 critique The Life of Jesus by David Friedrich Strauss, apostles of the new scientific method raised additional questions with increasing urgency: Might faith...
...notes pointedly that one of its members is Paul Verhoeven, whose credit as director of the movie Showgirls is far more recent than his Ph.D.), but on prior agreement on a goal. The goal, he maintains, is to discover a Jesus devoid of anything "mythical" or concerned with the actual possibility of a world to come, but reflective instead of the countercultural attitude favored by liberal academics. Although Johnson approves of some of the criteria the group applies to Scripture, he is derisive of its elimination of most long passages (members of oral cultures, after all, are renowned for memorizing...
Although it may seem that "Girl 6" discusses the theme of female sexuality, one cannot help but noticing the lack of actual sex within the movie--only two kisses, one in a fantasy and another at an audition. If anything, "Girl 6" is a sad commentary on male sexuality. One caller, a father, listens to his sadistic domestic fantasy while babysitting his children. A janitor asks for two operators to act out his pedophile tendencies. One caller repeatedly threatens Girl 6's life by telling her that he will suffocate her with a plastic bag. Their pitiful requests for sexual...
They reacted swiftly in part because the court's decision included a sharp warning that "if the law school continues to operate a disguised or overt racial classification system in the future, its actors could be subject to actual and punitive damages." Says Berdahl: "That gets your attention real fast." Other state schools in the circuit, which includes Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, are bound by the decision. Private schools may also be affected because many receive federal funds, and campuses nationwide are studying the ruling as a possible harbinger of things to come...