Word: explains
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...judge Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy. The hired gun of the City Council, Healy's mission is to run the city full time while the councillors pop in weekly to see how things are going. When they drag him from his office four or five times a night to explain city issues to them, Healy wearily explains to a part-time legislature the intricacies of his 14-hour days...
...Evolutionary theory is based on empiricism, and thus there can be no argument that it belongs in a science class. Assertions of the type made in the text book, though, go beyond facts. In describing the development of life as "unplanned" and without purposeful design, the book tries to explain the forces ultimately behind evolution. It thus exceeds the bounds of observation and objectivity, and falls into the realm of subjective truth. By implying that no higher consciousness was behind the design of the universe, the book makes a claim that is nothing short of religious dogma...
...cannot help but wonder whether the administration would have taken this long to address a similar complaint by a different student group. We hope that the decision reached by Dean Epps and the committee will not only address the unfair treatment of our grant application but will also explain the delay and ensure that, in the future, even the hint of discrimination will not go ignored. The Harvard community must be educated on Arab issues. Unfortunately, the administration has made our goal of education difficult to reach. Haneen M. Rabie '95 Laila F. Sahyoun...
Some students who shopped the class yesterday said they had heard a lot of hype and wanted to hear Lee explain the course...
...difficult trick for Ryan, a man who had publicly boasted about his Soviet contacts and access to Soviet government records, to explain how Justice Department investigators could have not come across these guard statements. In an interview Monday, Ryan speculated the statements might have been stuck somewhere in the inefficient Soviet archive system...