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Even some critical scholars are willing to ignore perceived empirical flaws and applaud Gilligan's contribution...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
Dartmouth must try to balance these two concerns--that of diversity in residences and viable social forums apart from the Greek houses--in the months and years ahead. We applaud their decision to provide students with on-campus housing options and prevent unhealthy atmospheres of binge drinking fostered by fraternities. Students must be given meaningful community centers around which to forge social connections and friendships...
...case has not finished its march through the legal system and there is no case being made at Harvard, but for the graduate students at NYU, and potentially at Yale and elsewhere, we applaud this decision and hope it will bring greater fairness to graduate students through the right of collective bargaining...
These recent commitments come in the wake of a series of workplace shootings and last February's fatal shooting of a first-grader by a six-year-old classmate. Even though Smith & Wesson most likely made these commitments to avoid a drawn-out and expensive litigation process, we applaud the company's courage and leadership in raising the expectations for gun producer responsibility for their guns after production. We hope the other gun manufacturers implicated by the government's lawsuit will follow the lead of Smith & Wesson...