Word: dubiousness
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...Beware of Dubious Teaching Secrets The media crowned a study as the answer to the Boy Crisis - but the study's "proven" effects are negligible at best
...blast and that shortly afterward, the Marines came under attack and returned fire, killing eight insurgents. But as TIME reported in March on the basis of interviews with 28 individuals, including military officials, the families of the victims, human-rights investigators and local doctors, much of that account is dubious. Members of Congress, as well as military sources, have confirmed the critical details of TIME's initial report--that after gunning down the five fleeing the taxi, a few members of Kilo Company moved through four homes along nearby streets, killing 19 men, women and children. The Marines contend they...
...faced the same criticism throughout the country's history. But until politicians define the goals of American immigration policy - who and how many do we want and for what reason - it will be impossible to strip out the influence of anti-immigrant forces who, whether racist or not, draw dubious conclusions and make misleading statements...
...phenomenon to a variety of social, academic, and institutional factors. It is simplistic to assert that refocusing a few courses on a major will have a large effect on the dropout rate. The claim that a high school major will make school more exciting for poor students is also dubious as the only way to implement such a system without destroying a student’s general education is by taking away electives, which are often the most interesting courses...
...Harvard student for these four years of her life should not strip her of her personal identity. She should be held accountable, above all, to herself, not to an institution—even if that institution, at least in the public eye, defines her first. In her (dubious) authorship of “Opal Mehta,” we should see Viswanthan as a writer first, and a Harvard student second...