Word: asserts
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Many students who oppose randomization say they like being able to live with people who have interests similar to theirs. Others say they want to have freedom of choice. Still others assert that just because students of different backgrounds or races live next to each other does not mean they will become friends...
...about developing a sense of identity," says Kenneth R. Manning '70. "Some of us [Black protesters] came from middle class backgrounds, some from poor Black neighborhoods, but we shared a need to assert ourselves in a positive way. We took our cultural and political contributions as Blacks very seriously...
...nation's largest independent DNA forensic laboratory, gave jurors whatTIME Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerthcalls "a very user-friendly lesson on what DNA is and how DNA testing is done." Their purpose, says Willwerth, is "to demonstrate the DNA testing is science rather than voodoo," as the defense will assert...
...days. But he hampered that effort with two comments. First he revived one of the most controversial periods of his own past by saying he felt vindicated in his opposition to the Vietnam War, thanks to the penitent memoirs of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Then Clinton strained to assert his own relevance to events in Washington. He was relevant, he insisted in a press conference, because the U.S. Constitution said so. His aides winced...
...anyone, including a judge in South Carolina, to say that they do not have the right to know the truth about the extraordinary past of an applicant for membership in the community they oversee because they cannot be trusted to be discreet and act fairly? Whoever wants to assert that ought to state it plainly. And then they should state what that view leads to--that Harvard is not a community where the many adhere to a code of conduct that rests on humanitarian ideals, but just a collection of individuals who are morally free to get here...