Word: denialism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...vice-chair of the UC’s Committee on College Life, came to show his support. “Without using our role as student advocates to help raise awareness, we fail our constituents,” he said. “When you have an environment of denial, you also have an environment that’s more permissive.” Susan B. Marine, who directs the Harvard College Women’s Center, said that events like “Take Back the Night” are particularly important in a college setting...
...have a better tomorrow. Above all, it tells the people the truth. No lying. No fudging the numbers. Just the truth about our current moment--which means facing up to the consequences of our paltry national savings, our growing income inequality, our dangerously unilateral foreign policy, our denial of looming environmental disaster and our failures in health care and education...
...come here to study modern Japanese history come here because of Harvard’s strength in the pre-modern era,” Yellen said. Jeffrey Y. Kurashige, a third-year graduate student in pre-modern Japanese history who spent the day gathering signatures, said that the tenure denial seems to indicate that the University is not interested in Adolphson’s field. “The message this decision sends to academia as a whole is that Harvard doesn’t value history before contact with the West,” Kurashige said. Interim President Derek...
Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute professor of sociology, said the denial of tenure was disappointing, but that it is a reality of life at Harvard...
...Clean air. Hong Kong has a serious air-pollution problem. The Chief Executive is in denial about it. The bureaucrats talk about striking a "balance" between development and environment without realizing their challenge is to reverse the damage. They also identify the problem with the Pearl River Delta, saying 80% of emissions come from across the border with China. Yet new research shows that about half the time, most of Hong Kong's air pollution comes from local sources. Cleaning up our road transport, shipping and power generation will make an enormous difference. Otherwise, there will be a toll...