Word: constructively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Academic courses may affect some students' ideas--Lewis reports that Afro-Am 175, "Race and Science," strengthened his conviction that race is merely a social construct--but may have little utility in convincing everyone of the benefits of an identity-sensitive university...
Fundraisers use a formula to construct a multimillion dollar gift like the 35th reunion donation the whole class will make to the Harvard College Fund this year. First, the reunion gift chairs actively solicit two or three gifts of $1 million or more, which often requires cross-country travel to stroke and cajole prospective donors. With those gifts in hand, fundraisers nationwide go after donations in the $10,000 to $100,000 range. Other fundraisers, whose focus is participation, launch phone drives to pick up minor contributors...
...Haass, a National Security Council official under Bush, argues that the fundamental problem is Christopher's lawyerly world view: "He's a mediator, used to a game with rules. He believes that if you look hard enough, you will find a common denominator out of which you can gradually construct some kind of edifice." That approach is producing some results in the highly structured Middle East peace talks, but elsewhere "it's very reactive," says Haass. "It's also easily overwhelmed by evil, and there is evil in this world...
Frazier refuses to define herself as a lesbian. This is one of the most refreshing things about Rita Mae Brown: she does not construct a rigid gay identity for her characters. The dividing line between gay and straight remains very fluid. For example, the goddess Venus--who materializes near the novel's end--believes that the division of people into the two categories is "a silly concept, but then you know people think in polarities these days. That's very destructive." Similarly, during her reading, Brown remarked: "I am never immune to the charms of the opposite sex...I just...
...make the multiplier/divider work, we needed to build an adder--not of the snake variety--since both multiplication and division, are in essence repeated additions (or subtractions). We also needed to construct several registers that store data and the pain-in-the-neck control unit, which instructs the rest of the chip what to do at each stage...