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...long as the institution occupies an intangible realm removed from those who constitute it, ideas wil tend to take on a life apart from those who create them. Professors communicate to one another through books. Bok communicates with the community through long, logical and legal treatises devoid of personal content. Faculty meetings allow little opportunity for open debate. Instead, projects are advanced behind the scenes, opposition quelled quietly. Change is measured in generations rather than months. Because initiatives rarely involve the input of the community, new projects must proceed ever so slowly to avoid the embarrassment of discontent or failure...
...UNITED STATES' worst bureaucracy, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is at it again. Devoid of compassion and ignorant of the word mercy, this mean-spirited agency is as close as America gets to the Gestapo; it terrorizes random individuals whose "crimes" are moot and who certainly have never endangered the safety of anyone...
...activity of viruses emerged during World War I, when a British and a French scientist independently noticed the appearance of clear circular spots in laboratory cultures grown over with bacteria. When material from a clear spot was applied to a different location in the bacteria culture, another circular area devoid of bacteria soon appeared. Felix d'Herelle, the French bacteriologist, thought he knew why. "What caused my clear spots," he wrote, "was in fact an invisible microbe, a filterable virus, but a virus parasitic on bacteria." D'Herelle named the unseen bug a bacteriophage (from the Greek phage, to devour...
...difficult to see where this film is leading, especially because it is devoid of the obvious, manipulative devices used in so many American movies. Don't look for any sappy moments of oversentimentality here, or any jokes to hit you over the head. But the tone is appealing, and the characters are offbeat and well-defined, even if the plot seems a little slow...
John Rosenthal's column in today's Crimson ("Rise'n'Thal," October 7) was so offensively devoid of sense that I feel compelled to respond in the interest of fairness...