Word: effected
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...also was witness to its profound effect on the faculty as a whole and the administrative response to student demands...
...could have intense discussions at thedinner table, but that didn't result in any kindof activity that would have a real effect onevents," Bellah says. "No one got agitated aboutit, because if you started talking about the Billof Rights, you were branded a Communist."Harvard ArchivesARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER '37 lecturedfrequently on the dangers of communism...
...know and the monstrous Alger that Chambers talked and wrote about." Hiss makes his case by quoting at length the lovely letters Alger wrote to him and Priscilla from the Lewisburg federal penitentiary, where he served three years and eight months in the early '50s. In effect, says Tony, the letters--gentle, loving, teasing, serene, filled with the observations of a bird watcher and stargazer--exonerate Alger. Bad things happen to good people. Alger's creed was not Marxism but...neighborliness...
...past 25 years, some three dozen studies have shown that eating as little as 47 g, or about 1.5 oz., of soy foods can lower total cholesterol levels an average of 9% and LDL 13%. (Just in case you're keeping score, that's about the same cholesterol-lowering effect as that promised by Benecol, the new high-priced margarine approved by the FDA two weeks ago.) But every little bit counts, since each 1% drop in total cholesterol translates into a 2% drop in the risk of developing heart disease. Still unclear is whether soy can help everyone...
...greater the enormity committed, of course, the less we are willing to attribute it to sheer, blind dumbness. We expect history to be imposing, complex, with an elaborate machinery of cause and effect. But great history may get made by stupidity (the colossal stupidity, for example, of the Japanese in attacking Pearl Harbor, thereby bringing America into...