Word: assertively
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...Ristelhueber's Thucydidean concept of the inevitability of human conflict and violence seems to be a particularly insensitive message at a time like this. It is almost offensive to assert--whether explicitly or implicitly--that attacks that kill innocent civilians by the thousands are simply part of an immutable historical continuum. The exhibit is not upsetting for what it shows, but for the inappropriate message it offers. Even if Ristelhueber is able to chronicle one disaster after another with artistic detachment, she (and the MFA) should take into account the need at this time for emotional response and moral valuation...
While a sense of national unity is a positive thing, it is dangerous to assume that the president and his administration can do no wrong. Fortunately, members of Congress are beginning to assert themselves. Representatives from both sides of the aisle are, appropriately, beginning to realize the complexity of the situation. House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.) recognized that even security comes with a price. He told The Washington Post last week, “This is about how we equip our anti-espionage, counterterrorism agencies with the tools they want while we still preserve the most fundamental thing...
...problem of fitting the events to the main themes becomes more serious when it comes to the discussion of the crises of the late 1960s. The Kellers do not really assert that the takeovers of University buildings grew out of inherent failings of the meritocratic University. Nor do they make a clear enough case for how the events bring about worldliness. They do a good job of describing the causal relationship between the takeovers and the shifts in the Universitys administrative culturethe professionalization of its governance. But the turbulence seems disconnected and the foundation of the case...
...well. Currently, bona fide Harvard professors teach 70 percent of the extension school’s 560 course offerings, exposing the program’s 14,000 students to much of the same material that they teach to college students by day. However, many of the extension school students assert that they see a side of professors that only comes out by the moonlight...
...need caring solidarity among all Americans. We need to protect our country, to care for the victims and their families and actually identify our enemy.” We don’t need to use the events of last week as an excuse to bash men and smugly assert the moral superiority of one gender over the other...