Word: affectations
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...about being a Crimson columnist?” There are so many benefits to the position that I don’t even know where to begin. I relish the opportunity to use Harvard’s premier media outlet to express my strong opinions about controversial topics that affect the very core of our University and even the world at large, like how chicken parmigiana should be served more often than biweekly. I love the power to stimulate intellectual debate over some of the world’s most perplexing issues. It fills my heart with glee when...
...really irrational that we are willing to tolerate self-deprecating racial humor but not Don Imus? Race doesn’t determine intelligence or character, and it shouldn’t affect a person’s opportunities in life, but this does not mean it can’t alter the offensiveness of speech or writing. Race may be an artificial construct, but so is racist language. The very nature of language dictates that offensiveness is dependent on identity...
...place like the Fresh Pond Apartments, where parents work multiple jobs or are immigrants unfamiliar with city bureaucracy, this lack of easily accessible information can disproportionately affect their ability to make informed decisions about the future of their children...
Besides Ho, a number of other prominent players sat out the game. The missing players especially affected the receiving corps: wideouts Corey Mazza, Chris Sanders, and Matt Lagace all didn’t play due to various injuries, none of which should affect the team in the fall...
...narrowed by ideological blinders—do not attempt to fit every political event into a predetermined theoretical framework. When considering issues—such as partial-birth abortion—only ideologues are content to dispense with the facts, for, as Rousseau famously summarized, they do not affect the question...