Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goal of scholarship were to confirm what beliefs about the world we held already, then many students and professors could save themselves much sweat and tears. We could transform this institution (formerly dedicated to veritas) into a giant orgy of self-congratulation. We could march through the Yard glorying in our ignorance. We could use the books in Widener as kindling in our fireplaces, and sit happily in our common rooms, secure in our righteousness...
...girlfriend's dorm and will remain there until it is convenient for the assistant dean to take her to her residence. I'm told that they boy will be spoken to that evening by another dean of the school. Later on that evening, my daughter calls to confirm that she is at the dean's residence and she will be okay for the evening. She has discovered that any Harvard key such us the one she has or the one the boy has will open the outside door of that residence...
Indeed, the world has few people as brilliant as the move's inventor, William David Cole. The cards he has dropped along the way confirm his intelligence: eight straight semesters on the dean's list at Columbia College; his mastery of five languages; a sterling reputation as a teaching fellow and graduate student at Harvard University. Cole, those who worked with him say, is fascinated by ideas. And he loves literature...
Europeans seemed less surprised - one way or the other - by the results of the survey. The low numbers tend to confirm the Continental caricature of Americans as flashy and bold onscreen but prone to paralysis in bed. Besides, the findings were pretty much in line with recent studies conducted in England and France that also found low rates of homosexuality and high rates of marital fidelity. (The French will be gratified by what a comparison of these surveys shows: that the average Frenchman and -woman has sex about twice as often as Americans...
...before the JSOC's Brigadier General Dick Scholtes would risk the lives of his troops, he insisted that Delta conduct its own reconnaissance to confirm that American POW's were really at Nhommarath. According to former CIA officials, the agency argued that it should carry out any ground reconnaissance since Americans would stand out in the Laotian jungle, and Washington needed to retain plausible deniability. CIA officials demanded that Laotians on their payroll carry out the mission. National Security Adviser Allen sided with the CIA after the officials assured him there would be at least one American accompanying the team...