Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SASC's current Harkness Common petition drive, a rough third of the Law School student body favored divestment, with almost no opposition. If the same apparently steady third supports divestment in the College dining hall petition, the trend will be even more strongly corroborated...
Instead of applying our voices to mindless chants and our bodies to melodramatic renovation of Harvard Yard, let's use our minds--or at least our common sense--to act through focused, non-offensive methods. If we want to show Black South Africans our sympathy, let's not objectify hem or mock their suffering, sensitive families in America. If we want to pressure the Harvard administration to divest, let's act directly, instead of play acting in fron of University Hall like over-eager children...
...that doesn't slow down the action at HMC headquarters. "[HMC] has been know to take risks," says Stanley's Hilzenrath. "They're smart people who do a lot of sophisticated trading in common stocks and options--which fits the kind of business...
...Area studies," such as the study of the Middle East, are particularly frought with these dangers. It is common knowledge that most departments of Middle East studies in the United States pay scant if any serious attention to Israel, and that the field is highly politicized. What American scholars of the Middle East write is often not far removed from the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nor is the fact that Nadav Safran is both Jewish and supportive of the broad contours of Israeli policy incidental to events of the last six months. Is not the politicization of this discipline...
...natural to want to begin an interaction with small talk. There is nothing inherently deceptive or insincere about this element of social relations. Whether in a job interview or setting up a date, chit-chat is a comfortable way to say that you are a real person, someone with common as well as unique characteristics, and to allow the other person the same opportunity. Just how much superficiality each of us needs or can tolerate may vary; sometimes we may dispense with it all together. Perhaps especially when doing missionary work, it is understandable to want to establish...