Word: discussive
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...initiative is the result of years of exit interviews, according to education professor Richard J. Light, that have revealed that while many students report having had a fulfilling experience at Harvard, they also tend to feel that they missed the opportunity to discuss aspects of student life in an informal setting...
...surveys, several seniors suggested the idea of dividing students into groups of 10 to discuss the various opportunities available at Harvard and to answer questions that they themselves had come across. Leading questions suggested by the seniors included, “What constitutes a good life?” and “What trade-offs does one make to achieve goals...
...would be willing to critique Obama plan for withdrawal from Iraq. Is there an argument you should make that perhaps he is being incautious or unreasonable? Well, that is a subject for another day, Rick. I am not going to have an opportunity on this phone call to discuss in depth the seriousness of the challenges we face in Iraq. But I do appreciate the support that I am getting from retired generals and admirals who have worked with me at my time during the Clinton Administration or in the Senate. I am going to be talking further about what...
...delivering drinking water and latrines to the rural poor. Today, many live simple lives eating rice and beans for breakfast, speaking a Spanish that drops the s at the end of words, a signature of a Nicaraguan accent. A group of several dozen of them gather each week to discuss social justice issues at the Casa Ben Linder, the Managua meeting house named after the only U.S. citizen killed by contras in the 1980s...
...accept a cease-fire if Israel stopped its air strikes and opened the border crossings into Gaza. He also pressed Israel to agree to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the freedom of Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped in June 2006. Israel has, until now, refused to discuss a truce with Hamas, which it (together with the U.S. and European Union) considers a terrorist organization. And, facing international sanctions designed to oust it from power, Hamas has shown no inclination to halt rockets being fired into southern Israel from territory under its control...