Word: affective
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...University President Larry Summers’ comments about women in science. To Gift proponents, these stances seem petty and shallow. Seniors (and alums) should not give to Harvard blindly. But neither should they let the bad overshadow the good. Whether Harvard has a student center or not does not affect the fundamentally positive things that Harvard accomplishes. Enforcing narrow administrative or academic accountability by rejecting the Senior Gift makes as much sense as refusing to pay for your parents’ retirement home because they wouldn’t let you see R-rated movies when you were in high...
...system. “MCAS is like an autopsy; by the time you get the scores back, the kids have already completed a whole other half year of school in another grade,” Walser said. “It’s really way too late to affect the kind of budgetary shifts that you might want to make or shifts in curriculum that you might want to make to help those kids.” Walser also said that she was worried about the pressure that testing has on schools...
...Frist has not said whether he will bring it back to the floor for a vote, but two things could affect that decision. Serious pressure from the White House to get a deal - pressure that so far, despite the President's occasional public statements, has been virtually non-existent - could move Republicans forward. Or a backlash against the massive protests planned by pro-immigration groups in coming days could make them dig in their heels. The Senate's dealmakers -John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Hagel, Mel Martinez, Barack Obama and others - say they will continue their weekly meetings in search...
...know Frankie was very close to his mother,” Johannessen says. “If his mother was having a tough time in Puerto Rico, we would know. That would affect...
...secondary fields might be offered in neuroscience, developmental psychology, social psychology, and other areas. Knafel Professor of Music Thomas F. Kelly said the Music department is considering possible secondary fields in music performance, analysis, composition, and jazz. It is difficult to predict how the implementation of secondary fields will affect the overall patterns of student concentration choice, said Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology David A. Haig, an EPC member. ”I think this will encourage students to try some of the smaller concentrations, knowing that they can take a secondary field in economics...