Word: decentering
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While the golf team's play did warm a little with the weather, a disappointing showing at the Ivy Championships came in the middle of the Crimson's two decent outings...
Where do homeless people eat? Although the foods at municipal and charity-run shelters may be of decent quality, foods obtained from fast-food restaurants, delicatessens and garbage bins are not as healthy. What sorts of lives do homeless people live? Wealth and stability--which the homeless lack--invite knowledge of and time for pursuing a healthier lifestyle. This means access to healthy food, appropriate health care and safe locations to exercise or relax. Hicks focuses his dull and uninformed contempt on a woman who can be assumed to lack these resources...
...contest, Harvard was outshot 17-2, with its two shots coming from Petruccelli and sophomore forward Jon Oslowski. But even with these shots, the Crimson did not have a decent scoring chance the entire game. Both of the shots missed the net, and the team did not manage a single corner kick...
...nation where blacks were shut out of decent schooling for generations, the SAT ran straight into the complications of race. The second half of Lemann's book is largely the story of how the arguments for affirmative action collided with the presumptions of the meritocracy. What to do? Abandon the idea of an elite created by the universities, says Lemann, though he doesn't altogether define what should take its place. All the same, he's right when he describes the predicament of the ETS: "an institution in charge of individual opportunity" in a country where opportunity is "the thing...
That would be Ed Stone. Collaborating with first-time director Mark Illsley on the script, he creates drama by placing decent folks in uncomfortable situations. It's as simple as having a man or a woman fall in love with someone wildly unsuitable, and as difficult as making all the parties pleasant and plausible--in the best sense, human...