Word: egalitarian
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...years, the authors have been ardent opponents of anti-egalitarian trends in science. Lewtontin, a professor of Biology at Harvard and a prominent evolutionary geneticist, has been particularly outspoken in his anti-sociobiology crusade. Rose, neurobiology professor at the Open University in England, has written on the social implications of biological and psychological research. Kamin, a professor of psychology at Princeton University, uncovered one of the most fraudulent scientific studies ever conducted: Sir Cyril Burt's experiments on intelligence...
...obvious. Common areas designed for 500-700 students were being used by 2500--it was uncivilized and unmanageable. Students missed out on the benefits of undergraduate college life, including closer contact with faculty members," he says. Katz also points to the faculty's desire to create a more egalitarian atmosphere because Princeton students, after their sophomore year, join selective eating clubs. "We wanted all the students to have some kind of integrated experience," he says...
Princeton's five residential colleges, now in their first year of full operation, are credited with fostering a more egalitarian atmosphere there...
Nonetheless, this hospitality is merely a concession to pragmatism. The Islamic Republic numbers among its foreign friends only Syria, Libya and North Korea. For the most part, Iran remains egalitarian in its hatred of both East and West, politically nonaligned with a vengeance...
...immune to the principles he was fighting for. "It had not yet occurred to him that democracy was for export," writes Bernier. The soldier returned to France an enthusiastic supporter of the ancien régime. Yet as the toast of Paris salons, he met some of the new egalitarian thinkers of the day and became a genuine convert to the cause of democracy. His new ideals and his ever growing popularity drew him into the French Revolution, and at 31 he became vice president of the new National Assembly the day before the Bastille was stormed. By trying...