Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's agreement Monday night to end attacks on ethnic Albanians made headlines, Harvard students from the region said they doubt he will keep his word...
...offered by the Founding Fathers? Clearly the answer is no. The president is not unfit to continue in office while maintaining the safety, security and integrity of the nation. Clinton may be making little progress on his domestic agenda, and global threats persist. But the nation is, without doubt, not on the brink of collapse...
...topic of regionalism, for example, is outside the mainstream of Harvard concerns, and no doubt should be. Still, at a time when various forms of regionalism--both supra-national and sub-national--are commanding increasing attention around the world, it is surprising how convinced Americans remain that our Civil War settled the question of regionalism once and for all. To me, as to many westerners, a course on challenges to American national identity would naturally include some discussion of place-based or regional challenges, but this is clearly not what brings most students to the course. Racial and ethnic strains...
Despite the possible benefits from a situation such as Layzer's, where undergraduates share responsibility with a more experienced instructor, I strongly believe it is inappropriate for undergraduates ever to teach and grade their peers. There are exceptional students at this college who will, I have no doubt, become effective teachers in the future. But for the moment we are all members of the same community. We have neither the qualifications, nor the depth of understanding in our field, nor the disinterestedness, nor the authority to formally judge or instruct one another. One example of the problems with this practice...
...only match that was in doubt wasPassarella's at No. 4 singles. The senior alwaysseems to find himself in--and emerging victoriousfrom--three-setters...