Word: elements
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...each year be between four and five percent of the total degree candidates (down from this past year's rate of seven percent) sacrifices personal achievement and individual accomplishment for the sake of some arbitrary cut-off. As such, we strongly discourage the Faculty from voting affirmatively on this element of the proposal. Give closer scrutiny to Summa candidates, but stick to your own guidelines; candidates thought worthy of highest honors should not be excluded from the distinction of Summa just because a large number of their classmates are also deserving...
...visual element worked particularly well in the sequence in which Martha's son takes over her house without her knowledge or consent. Even without dialogue, the sense of pain and frustration is evident in Lee's depiction of Martha's defeated spirit. Ulrich's voice-overs also serve to acknowledge those gaps in information that may prevent the audience from sharing an emotional immediacy with the characters...
There is an element of mordant irony about the liberal transgenderism resolution in that it may be the secret weapon to achieving the fairness and quality which Harvard conservatives seek. (By "fairness" and "equality," I mean equal opportunity in the unadulterated sense of the term--no special preferences for anyone, for any reason.) The first time a Radcliffe organization receives a scholarship application from someone who is a biological male but who considers himself to be a female, the conservative fight for equality will have been won. Radcliffe will finally be called upon to reconsider its exclusively female career, scholarship...
...Harvard doesn't have a central unifying social element," he says. "That really loses some of the beautiful diversity that Harvard...
Jones--whose daughter, Kidada Jones, had been engaged to Shakur and came close to being in the car in which the rap artist was killed--said the "gangsta" element in rap music was more theatrical than political and should be abandoned...