Word: conscious
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...terrorism. In the coming days, Harvard must maintain the spirit of its initial response, continuing work while remaining sensitive to individual needs. Professors should be willing to provide information and academic advice throughout shopping period for students who missed yesterday’s classes, while students should be especially conscious of the feelings of others. We also hope and expect that those directly affected by the tragedies would be permitted reasonable extensions for fellowships and other deadlines set before Tuesday’s terrible events...
...America explore the rich reciprocal possibilities of the fatwa. A policy of focused brutality does not come easily to a self-conscious, self-indulgent, contradictory, diverse, humane nation with a short attention span. America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness?and to relearn why human nature has equipped us all with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred...
...America explore the rich reciprocal possibilities of the fatwa. A policy of focused brutality does not come easily to a self-conscious, self-indulgent, contradictory, diverse, humane nation with a short attention span. America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness?and to relearn why human nature has equipped us all with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred...
...political and security apparatus working side by side with the Islamists and other radicals in "Popular Resistance Committees," sometimes in defiance of the Palestinian leader's periodic cease-fire calls. Thus the sorry pantomime of the Palestinian leader's efforts to appear in step, such as his self-conscious toting of a Kalashnikov for the cameras while assessing Israeli bomb damage Monday. And for Arafat the ruse is self-defeating, since the further down that road he goes the more difficult becomes the return to negotiations he so desperately seeks, while his erstwhile rivals in the Islamist camp are quite...
...along a continuum between copying the traditional classroom and "learning" by building Mommy and Daddy a lovely cedar deck. The success of the venture may depend more on the parents than the kids. If they are like Marilyn and Gene McGinnis of Atlanta, devout Mennonites who nonetheless make a conscious effort to teach their children about other cultures and religions, home schooling can broaden and enrich children's minds as much as any schooling. Home schooling also works when parents are like the Deckers in Katy, Texas, parents of five, who were humble enough to get help from another home...