Word: connor
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...witness to the grotesque display during the OCS panel, I was unconvinced by Kevin J. Connor and Suvrat Raju that their chosen methods were designed to achieve those goals (“Change From the Inside...
...country. The student surge is revamping inner cities and the culture of universities. In Melbourne, foreign students from a range of campuses have opted to live in town, saving property developers from "a huge embarrassment of oversupply in city apartments," according to Monash University urban planner Kevin O'Connor...
...According to Monash's O'Connor, foreign students have brought vitality to campus life and the classroom. "But it can be a mixed blessing," he says. "The learning styles are different, more resources are needed for language support, and in some classes local students shy away from doing group work with Asian students." Academics and administrators are sensitive to claims of a slip in degree standards, poor-quality students and soft marking to keep foreigners coming through the turnstiles. RMIT vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner believes that going all out for growth in student numbers is a dangerous game. "Australian higher...
...have a candidate in mind that I would love to see, and that's Sandra Day O'Connor. I think she would be the perfect choice, a very healing choice for the country. I think those others would be very polarizing and not good for the country...
...movement was Roe's establishment of the trimester theory of pregnancy, which holds that a government's legitimate interest in the life of the fetus grows as the fetus moves toward viability outside the womb. In her blunt dissent to one of the 1983 decisions, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the trimester theory was arbitrary. Said she: "I believe that the state's interest in protecting potential human life exists throughout pregnancy." Right-to-life advocates now say that new medical technology makes the fetus viable at earlier and earlier stages...