Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toward our own prejudices so that we will turn to others for enlightenment. But a good liberal arts education demands that we be equally skeptical of the prejudices of others. This is possible because proponents of the liberal arts education believe in our universal capacity to reason and to discern truth. Promoters of diversity, on the other hand, appeal not to truth but to many different truths. To them, Harvard is not an education but an experience. As Harvard so unabashedly prefaces so many of its brochures, "Diversity is the hallmark of the Harvard experience...
...performing an abortion with their own hand. After her experience with RU 486, Joelle Mevel, 34, vows that if there is a next time, she will choose surgery. "I spent the whole time worrying that I would see the child in the basin, that I would be able to | discern something human in the blood," she says. "I would rather have gone to sleep and awakened later knowing it was all over...
...Every department of course constantly pressures the dean for more faculty and more resources," he said. "It is a matter for [me] to discern where the pressures are greatest...
Indeed, one can discern the potency of the force of racism still at play in the White Media from the controversy which erupted last month when USA Today published on its Feb. 16 front page a photograph of five angry-looking young Black men holding guns to accompany a story about gang violence in Los Angeles...
Though Mankiw says the three economists cannot be characterized as "liberals," Government Department Chair Susan J. Pharr says it is possible to discern a certain party leaning in the patterns of departure...