Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's administration washed its hands of the issue, a la Pilate, when it cut "all official ties" with the final clubs in 1984. Such "harsh" measures included cutting off the clubs' Centrex and heating services. Yet their can be no doubt that the University has not exhausted its options as it has claimed. It does nothing to deter professors from dining there and, worst of all, says nothing about students' conspicuous membership in a discriminating institution...
Cabot Library: No. Cabot, by contrast, teems with cut-throat premeds, just back from subverting their fellow students' lab projects. Chocolate candy, promises of sexual favors and even naked love dances won't budge them from their meticulously prepared notebooks...
...this time I had about two minutes left before the computer was going to cut me off and I was growing more and more frantic. I was so close to passing...and besides, no one was stupid enough to fail the QRR four times...
...conflict cut to the heart of Muslim and Judeo-Christian values, with centuries of cultural misunderstanding and mistrust finding a flash point in Rushdie's novel. After Khomeini's call to murder, many Muslim leaders worldwide disagreed with the ferocity of his action, but none had a friendly word for Rushdie, his literary intentions or his right to free speech. To be sure, few of his prosecutors had read the book, as the author pointed out repeatedly; most seemed to feel they had learned enough from printed excerpts or merely word of mouth to convict the author of blasphemy compounded...
...Rushdie's most bitterly disputed passages deals with the famous Satanic verses from which the novel takes its title. Here Mahound is tempted by Gibreel (obviously a reference to the angel Gabriel) to cut a deal with the enemies of his embryonic faith and tolerate worship of three of their goddesses alongside the one God. Gibreel later tells Mahound that the idea came from Satan, and the prophet orders acceptance of the rival deities to be stricken from his holy text...