Word: decentering
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...submitted her first chapter to her thesis adviser last week, hoping to get some thoughtful feedback and instead just got some artful feedback—a landscape doodled across the first page. A visibly upset Arid calmed down after friends assured her that she was still a good, decent person and that her thesis adviser also respects her as a person—just not as a thesis writer...
...been an utter disaster,” said Sachs, Columbia University’s professor of sustainable development and director of the Earth Institute. “It was a year in which almost every decent agenda in the world was overtaken by war, by the loss of life, by a failure to address impoverishment, disease and environmental degradation...
...admit, fast food is not the healthiest of foods. But I am in decent shape,” said Bressman, member of the JV basketball team. “Well, perhaps a touch overweight...
...letters to their families, which are censored coming in and going out, some detainees have given the conditions at Gitmo decent reviews. Airat Vakhitov, one of eight alleged Talibs from Russia, wrote to his mother in Tatarstan that his conditions in Gitmo were much better than in the best Russian sanatorium. In fact, his mother Amina is concerned lest the Americans extradite her son to face a worse fate back home; she and another Russian mother have petitioned the U.S. government not to deport their sons. One detainee's brother, Arsen Mokayev, who served two years in prison...
...dysfunctional as the French. An American professor in the French system feels as if he has landed not merely in another nation, but on another planet. For the very idea of a student-centered higher-education system, where every infrastructural nuance - from faculty offices to student housing to decent salaries to ample classrooms - is designed to facilitate both teaching and research, is as foreign to most French universities as a slice of foie gras is to a Weight Watchers' meeting. Instead, what we have in France - often in the name of democracy and equality of opportunity - are overcrowded classrooms, underpaid...