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Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy Wei-Ming Tu, whose Moral Reasoning core "Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community" came in a distant second with an enrollment of 471, said he was surprised to see so many people in his class...
Students here are on the whole intelligent, humane people, who know about and care about the Holocaust. Yet the war in Bosnia is considered something obscure and distant...
While the threat of a Russian invasion seems a distant memory for most Americans, for Alaskans, who make up 0.002 percent of Harvard undergraduates, it is very real. Vladimir Zhirinovsky may seem like a joke to the residents of the 49 other states, but some Alaskan residents say he represents a grave threat to their state...
...they had, the influential and aggressive Slits; they also covered the Kinks' "Lola," adding another layer of gender confusion to Ray Davies' already mixed-up sexual world. The Raincoats' first record therefore gets attention as a kind of pop-music ecriture feminine, and the articulate Raincoats themselves as the distant foremothers of Bikini Kill...
...before-and-after pictures said it all: images of distant stars and galaxies that had been fogged and blurry were suddenly breathtakingly clear. Not only was nasa's Hubble repair mission an unqualified success (boosting the agency's chances of getting funding for its next big project, the space station), but astronomers now have a scientific tool of unprecedented power. Discoveries -- black holes, white dwarfs, new solar systems -- could pour in for years to come...