Word: discussive
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...make sure that a criminal does not remain head of state. They can start by placing economic sanctions on Sudan, boycotting its merchandise, and placing an arms embargo on the country. At a later stage, they can sever diplomatic ties with Sudan or call for a G8 summit to discuss further steps. They should not consider a military operation, mainly because it will lead to a very costly long-term commitment. But they should increase the presence of the UN peace-keeping forces in Darfur to ensure that a second genocide does not take place...
...Christensen said. “But we have a lot in common with them, and it’s really cool to be friends with people you wouldn’t normally meet.”Before the match began, Saretsky and Yale coach David Shoehalter sat down to discuss which members of the Crimson and Bulldog teams would represent the universities on the track. “[Harvard-Yale] is only allowed two total on the track for each event,” Saretsky said. “Every track event has only four contestants.”Despite...
...reading has, in fact, benefited society, or at least it has benefited you. I’m writing to you. I haven’t shown up at your house to duke it out, to resolve this difference between us with fist, or knife, or gun. I want to discuss this matter.And perhaps it is this circumstance that offers a faint idea of the social good that reading does. It acculturates an individual to discourse. To read fiction is to be exposed to a polyphony of voices, to engage with a multitude of perspectives, to imaginatively interact with places...
...Jaime Blanc’s own “Rite of Spring.”“Harvard, as you know, has an extraordinary range of scholarly and research based resources. It is also an institution with the unique capacity to convene experts from around the world to discuss and examine a broad range of intellectual and creative interests,” OFA Director Jack Megan says. “The Ballets Russes symposium speaks to all of these strengths. It engages important scholars, dance critics, and artists in a discussion about one of the most innovative artistic enterprises...
Everyone knows about this one. The café is a quiet, oft-neglected place to study* or engage in spirited intellectual conversation. Indeed, by day it resembles a veritable coffeehouse--the type you would find in 18th-century Enlightenment Europe, where Diderot and Montaigne would discuss the great ideas over a newspaper and cup of coffee. Yeah right. More like sweaty undergrads crammed together eating all the food. But whatever, it gets the job done. You're probably reading this there...