Word: adjustments
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Essentially, an admissions officer asks, “If this person were to break his or her leg so severely that further participation in athletics would be impossible, how would the student adjust and still contribute to his or her peers and members of the Harvard community?” According to Scalise and Fitzsimmons, every athlete that is recruited to Harvard must past the “broken leg” test as a final hurdle to admission, regardless of AI score...
...that can be overcome by the efforts and needs of a diverse faculty and student body. And the option presented to students undertaking ethnic and regional studies within already existing concentrations is ineffective. There is no single methodology for the study of race and ethnicity. Having ethnic studies students adjust their thesis projects to fit the methodological demands of an indirectly related concentration only temporarily curbs the problem caused by the emergence of new scholarship on ethnicity and race that, like that of women’s studies, is coming to occupy an increasingly important place in a number...
...country founded by rebels and settled by refugees is a happily untidy place, slow to conform, quick to adjust. Another week passes, another adjustment: first came permission to laugh again, make fun of the President, shop; now comes the license to argue again--the "music of democracy," one House member mused last week. It was almost a relief to watch lawmakers who used to loathe one another make common cause in their loathing of John Ashcroft's antiterrorism bill. Did anyone actually mourn the death of bipartisanship? It was a bloodless phantom anyway: all lawmakers love their country and would...
...live with terrorism? For Israeli civilians, who have been coping with the fear of knifings, shootings and bombings for the entire half-century of their nation's existence, it's a bit like living in a village next to a river that floods in the spring. You adjust...
...think that really helped”. Now a Harvard first-year, Edgar finds the ‘ordinary’ aspects of college life the hardest to get used to. “I had never seen snow before and the American food was hard to adjust to. We sometimes try to make Sierra Leonian food, but its just not the same over here”, he explains ruefully...