Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shachar began Harvard as a computer science concentrator and as a "perfectionist," which, he explains, he distinguishes from his current ideal of excellence. After brief stints with economics, cognitive science, history, math, applied math and various combinations of all those with psychology, he is graduating with a double concentration in philosophy and psychology...
Classes returned, at least for a brief time, to an all-male makeup. Radcliffe students, who had taken classes with Harvard students during the war, were again excluded during the summer term of 1946, as enrollments skyrocketed and professors struggled to accommodate the overwhelming numbers...
...into trouble is the dog that doesn't bark. "We don't have a lot of studies to build a broad, knowledgeable base," agrees Kristin Moore, executive director of the research firm Child Trends Inc., because most of the efforts to help kids are "too late, too shallow, too brief and too cheap...
...most disheartening part of Franklin Graham's rise to power was the brief mention of his sister Anne Graham Lotz, one of Billy Graham's three daughters, "an inspirational speaker and long considered the child who inherited the greatest share of Billy's gift." It is obvious that no one--not herself nor her father nor his organization--even considered Lotz to be the one to whom the "mantle may be passed." Instead it was forced on the son, the rightful male heir, according to some patriarchal notion of manifest destiny. Perhaps today's preachers should be as mindful...
...American Civil Liberties Union argue that giving the appellate courts power to deny a death row inmate the right to appeal to the Supreme Court is unconstitutional because it reduces the high court's authority as overseer of the lower courts. In a friend-of-the-court brief submitted by Senator Orrin Hatch, fifty-four members of Congress urged the court to rule in favor of the law, arguing that it does not cut into the judicial power of the high court. A decision, which could affect some 3,000 inmates, is expected some time later this month. -->