Word: behavior
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...itself on its tolerance toward outsiders - can't seem to curb the ugly scenes that blight its stadiums. Such scenes are not new. "Ultras" - fans whose ardent devotion to their teams has often spilled over into violence - have long been a feature of the Spanish game. "This kind of behavior began 20 years ago in isolated incidents," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement Against Intolerance, an ngo that monitors the incidence of racial abuse in Spain. "But it has spread, propagated through the media, and it has contaminated not just soccer stadiums but Spanish society at large." Indeed, racist...
...ideas he expressed—that perhaps men and women display fundamental differences in behavior and thought processes—were by no means faulty. Rather, he was wrong to think that the academic community would react favorably to his unconventional theory. Instead, many members of the scientific community have had collapsed into epileptic fits at the thought of a challenge to their politically correct world...
...evidence that men and women reason differently. While men excel at spatial tasks and mathematical reasoning, women tend to perform better on tests of perceptual speed and mathematical calculations. This is not to say one gender is smarter than another—or that one can accurately predict the behavior or ability of individuals—but rather that sex differences correlate with differences in the means of the respective populations...
...this one old enough to drink legally, wondered. “I liked his approach,” Pat M. Tomaino ’07 said of Travia. But Dustin T. Clausen ’08 said, “It’s not going to change my behavior.” He said that the “allure” of the talk, entitled, “Pizza, Port, and Pop,” wasn’t its content. “The pizza,” Clausen added, “was delicious...
...years for caselaw for the univeristy to decide whether it’s O.K. to discriminate or not.”His BGLTSA co-chair Ryan R. Thorenson ‘07, agrees. “The administration has a certain conservative slant in terms of changing institutional behavior. The nondiscrimination code is regarded as a big change,” he says. “More specifically, this is an issue where the college thinks it can wait four years, and the student activists will graduate.”Those activists cite other schools which have moved faster...