Word: akin
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted this evening to allow undergraduates to declare secondary fields, akin to minors, as professors overwhelmingly endorsed the first legislation to emerge from the three-and-a-half-year-old curricular review...
...bill, Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, who is the vice-chair of the council’s Student Affairs Committee. The Student Affairs Committee’s chair, Ryan A. Petersen ’08, said the proposal for secondary fields—which would be akin to minors—“allows students to pursue passions beyond their concentration.” But Petersen, who is also a co-sponsor of the bill, acknowledged that the reforms will force departments to re-evaluate concentration requirements and year-long tutorials. “Certainly there...
...restore revolutionary ideals--and solidify his base in the military and revolutionary apparatus. That requires a return to the 1980s atmosphere of siege, rallying Iranians by whipping up animosity toward a common enemy, the West. To a generation forged in the heat of revolution and war, diplomacy is akin to slow surrender. "He's using the nuclear issue," says a Tehran political science professor, "to send a message to the Iranian people that he's tough, capable of standing up for Iran and fundamentally different from his soft predecessors...
...costs of a military strike would well outweigh the benefits. That would be no simple raid but a major military operation taking several weeks, akin to the opening onslaught on Iraq in 2003. Not just the nuclear sites but Iran's air defenses and retaliatory machinery as well would have to be destroyed. The collateral damage in Iranian casualties from the attacks or radioactive fallout could be severe, as could the political backlash against moderates and opponents of the existing regime. And then, how much would Iran's nuclear ambitions be set back? "You can't bomb know-how," says...
...conflating depression with angst in her comment “Depressed?” (Mar. 20), Lucy Caldwell told Harvard students dealing with depression that they should relish their misery and use it productively. This is akin to telling someone with a severely debilitating medical condition to enjoy it, because lots of people do their best work when sick...