Word: admit
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Finally, I take issue with Miss Hennessy-Fiske's careless journalism. I must admit I noticed her researching her story only because a fellow student was chewing her out for her leading approach to her interviews. In overhearing her other interviews, it became clear that she was searching solely for quotes that supported her position. Hence her brusque dismissal of the one quoted student who wanted to (gasp!) make an informed statement rather than spew aimless vitriol...
...bottom line is that Harvard cannot have it both ways. Either it must admit that research must come at the expense of undergraduate instruction or it must change the way it does business...
...Council, one of Harvard's largest student-run organizations. Then, I recalled the conversation I had with Jal before the piece was published. He demanded that I explain why a majority of the 400 members of the IRC were male. Only when I took out a calculator did Jal admit that the IRC's gender ratio was in line with the college as a whole (roughly 55% to 45%). Jal didn't give up, and asked why we had so few women leaders. Never mind the fact that last year's IRC President was female, the heads of three...
...whose job it is to decide in this case? Or should it be the word of the Lord God Almighty given to the authors of Christianity's canon, the Bible, through inspiration by the Holy Spirit? I would hope that even those on the council would be willing to admit they have yet to reach divinity...
...must admit that America is no worse off for the Tickle Me Elmo dolls; they are just this year's leading symbol of the unabashed capitalism that plagues every American December. One company is surely much richer for producing the toy that turned parents into larger, more insistent versions of the whining children for whom they were buying the dolls. I can even dismiss my curmudgeonly opinion that dolls shouldn't talk, giggle or move on their own--that human imagination should be more important than technical ingenuity--in the face of the techno-addicted, video-game-actuated children that...