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...Board will not automatically give an advantage to those students who are duly called before the Ad Board for real offenses. Rather, student membership on the Ad Board will give the Board a much more well-rounded view of the situations with which it is presented. It will help dispel false defenses as well as highlight legitimate concerns that only students, with their proximity to life at Harvard, might be able to discern. It will ensure that the Board is getting an accurate representation of the views and values that modern Harvard students have and can decide whether incidents...
Herschbach joked that his participation in the show might dispel some stereotypes of his colleagues. “For a lot of people, scientists seem to be a breed apart,” he said. “But scientists enjoy having fun as much as anyone else...
...have a clue how to pronounce it. VW has tacitly admitted that they were right. Some of the first TV ads for the Touareg parody its pronunciation (which, for the record, is "tour-egg"). VW says that Americans had difficulty pronouncing Passat when it launched. But that doesn't dispel the sense that VW's marketing department is in triage mode. Touareg, it turns out, also refers to a rugged tribe of African nomads that held and traded slaves until the 20th century - a poor association for a company that used slave labor during World War II. Last summer, Pischetsrieder...
...wanted to get as many people as possible to see them, and to see what the principal’s job is like,” explains Ellen Guiney, executive director of Boston Plan for Excellence, the organization which sponsored the program. “We wanted to dispel the myth that it is chaos, that nobody knows what they are doing...
...want to dispel the myth that math and science are so challenging that minority students can’t handle them,” Charles Ogletree said...