Word: appealling
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...believed the post—which opened up in March, when current GSAS Dean Theda Skocpol announced her intention to resign—would be filled before winter break, he did note that any timeline would be contingent on whether he could sell the deanship’s appeal to the candidates being sought...
...earnestly appeal to you to create a Task Force to investigate this and to recommend possible remedies. We would hope that in addition to faculty and present day students you would invite onto such a Task Force representatives of the alumni representation from earlier, less laid back days...
...dichotomy of business vs. service at Harvard, and the domination of the former over the latter in its appeal to graduating students, is nothing new. Big business has been the preferred career of Harvard graduates for as long as there have been investment banks to work at, even in the ostensibly counter-culture ’60s. The Class of 1967 entered Harvard ready and willing to shoulder the task of dismantling the apparatus of segregation and poverty in America. Barely a month later, President John F. Kennedy ’40, the country’s greatest symbol...
...degree that Dines managed to be at all compelling, it was in her appeal to the victimization of women who star in porn. Too many male consumers of pornography, she suggested, fail to realize they are “jerking off to someone else’s misery.” To drive this message home, she presented a photo of a woman’s face covered in semen. Yet, like her other assertions, this is not grounded in fact. American women are not sold into pornography as slaves—though engaging in porn may come...
...Soviet Union. It's not that the former KGB man has any policy preferences or even a political style in common with Ronald Reagan, the great icon of contemporary American conservatism. But in the sense that he has made Russians feel good once again about their country, his appeal is Reaganesque...