Word: cherishable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot help but think that if Bok were truly committed to the values he publicly espoused--diversity and openness--he could done more to force real change at the University. The problem, it seems, was one of priorities. Bok professed to be committed to the values we cherish. But he was more committed to many others. To Bok, change was bad if it he saw it as challenging tradition or putting ethical concerns before financial viability--and that's usually...
...there was no television coverage in Princeton Sunday. Only those who were there will forever cherish the memory of Walser wheeling and firing a quick wrist shot past Maryland goalie Jessica Wilk for the winning score. It was over in a second, and the celebrating had begun...
...various ways deceptive. The West Germans have made some amends, but they have forgotten too much; the Austrians deny they were Hitler's willing accomplices; the Dutch idolize Anne Frank but overlook the fact that she was betrayed by one of the many Dutch collaborators; the French cherish the myth of the heroic Resistance but began mistreating Jews well before the Nazis asked them to do so; the Soviets steadfastly denigrate the Jewishness of most Holocaust victims; and all too many Americans are turning memories of the Holocaust into a vulgar fund-raising carnival...
...know whereof I speak, for the simple reason that, as a product of British-style sociological education, I was miseducated in exactly the same way that I see Harvard students--whom I cherish and respect more than any other group of young people--now being miseducated in the Social Studies program. Only more so, since I had to read more texts than they now do, and my tutorials were one-on-one with my exegetical indoctrinators. I, too, had to take the same smattering of anthropology, economics, political science, and history courses, as well as an introductory statistics course which...
...Harvard community must begin to practice what we preach, especially with regard to the First Amendment principles of freedom of expression and diversity of opinion that this institution purports to cherish. Joey McCutchen Harvard Divinity School