Word: asserting
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...identity.” But the Institute’s failure to inspire wide scale minority involvement clearly calls for a new strategy. The most recent initiative to establish ties with several black student groups, for example, will not get off the ground if the IOP continues to assert full control over its old “identity.” Fulfilling such a role need not diminish the IOP’s own priorities and programs; it would merely expand its range...
...blocking group—within a semester. Sure, we instruct them to enjoy their current communities and not worry about it, but really. Of course they’re going to spend half the semester strategizing for allies—it’s their only chance to assert control over their future communities at the College, as their frosh living community is frittered away at the end of freshman year. This is too much unhealthy pressure from the College’s administration, and they should know better. Discombobulated first-years don’t have the mental chops...
...could at least be assured of a warm welcome at his first stop. In Kyoto, Bush was to meet Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Bush loves Koizumi, and the feeling is mutual. More to the point, it has become conventional wisdom on both sides of the Pacific to assert that the U.S.-Japan alliance is now closer and stronger than it has ever been-an assessment strengthened by the rapid-fire conclusion of a number of military pacts between the two nations in the last month. But no amount of hugs between Bush and Koizumi can obscure some awkward questions...
...Prescriber information on the SSRIs in America contains an extraordinary sentence missing from the versions seen by Australian doctors - extraordinary in the context of a debate in which advocates of the drugs assert that depressed people who aren't treated are at heightened risk of contemplating and attempting suicide. "The average risk of such events in patients receiving antidepressants was 4%," the U.S. warning reads, "twice the placebo risk of 2%." In other words, drugs meant to stop depressed people from getting even more depressed or killing themselves may double their chances of doing just that. For the skeptics, that...
...Better now you ask us questions and we take notes, than we try to assert a position because we don’t have one,” he said...