Word: existing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's important for us to be out and to remind the administration that we exist," said Assistant Professor of English and American Literature Jeffrey A. Masten...
...recent so-called debate on "gays in the military" has been bad enough. We have had to witness not just our claims to full citizenship, but our very right to exist, made subject to hearing and referendums. We have heard murderous fantasies, and seen real beatings, count as legitimate contributions to this debate. Now the most outspoken opponent of our rights in this regard--who can hardly bring himself even to condemn the violence that his own pronouncements have licensed in his ranks--will occupy the highest-profile podium that Harvard can afford him, and will there argue once more...
Ethnic rivalries, which certainly do exist, have been manipulated and fanned by Serb leaders for several reasons: first, to consolidate domestic support in Serbia for the war, and second, to keep the West from intervening by making the conflict look insoluble. The ploy has worked admirably...
...similar chemical variation appears to exist in humans. Studies at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism conclude that men who commit impulsive crimes, such as murdering strangers, have low amounts of serotonin. Men convicted of premeditated violence, however, show normal levels. As for aggressive behavior in women, some researchers speculate that it might be tied to a drop in serotonin level that normally occurs just before the menstrual period. Drugs that increase serotonin, researchers suggest, may make people less violent...
...professions exist today which sustain codes, laws, or oaths that prevent members from engaging in personal relationships of any nature. Doctor's Hippocratic Oath, obliges them to refrain from encounters with their patients. But doctors promise to separate business from pleasure as a universal rule. If the problem of student-teacher relations is so pronounced, then why have individual universities been left to formulate their own policies? Except for clergy required to take vows of chastity, sexual restraint and career occupation rarely coincide. For most jobs, there's no reason that they should...