Word: devoide
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...years that followed, I recognized a more practical problem with having few professors of color: Many times, research issues relating to minorities are overlooked by a faculty devoid of minorities. After deciding to study the issue of minority voting rights, I confronted the fact that few professors in the Government Department dealt primarily with this important research area. The current debate surrounding the issue of voting rights hits at the heart of democratic notions of fair representation and inclusion, yet Harvard's largest department has a relative lack of emphasis on that area...
...policy, Harvard College has embarked on a perilous and unfortunate course. While the ideals of increasing diversity and reducing stress should guide every decision made by University officials, the new policy, which eliminates student agency in the housing process, will increase anxiety and turn diversity into a numbers games, devoid of true interaction and communication...
...began my doubts began to disappear. We were doing nothing disruptive. We were simply praying the rosary quietly. The prochoice protesters were shouting, their faces filled with rage. They rattled homemade noisemakers to break our concentration. But we persevered in prayer, in a manner that was unobtrusive, humble and devoid of anger...
...then there is an anomaly named Mike Tyson. A TV movie about the wayward boxer's life, which airs this month on hbo, deftly portrays the former world heavyweight champion as a ruined young man devoid of the sportsman's archetypal inner drive. Witness an Iron Mike without an iron will...
...many ways men and women have found myth, meaning and symbols of national character in such natural objects as forests, rivers and mountains. Consider, for example, the Alps. To sobersided moderns, these vast, snowy protuberances are no more than vertically enhanced scenery--awesome to be sure, but devoid of greater meaning. Earlier generations were more impressionable. As proof that the mountains were possessed by the devil, the learned physicist and mathematician Johann Jacob Scheuchzer in 1702 compiled an encyclopedic list of dragon sightings in the Alps. (Mons Pilatus was said to harbor a particularly hideous monster, with a head "that...