Word: explicitly
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...that, inevitably, is forced to decide who among the minorities is a “deserving” minority and who is an “over-represented” one. In theory, admissions should be done the way many elite colleges claim they are conducted: holistically, with no explicit quantitative benefit for certain races. But looking at admissions data, it seems that colleges are giving such weight to considerations of race that the result is de facto quotas...
...Words: Benedict spoke out strongly - and repeatedly - for religious freedom throughout the trip. The explicit softness in his approach to Islam allowed him to make an implicit plea for allowing religious minorities in Muslim countries - and everywhere - to freely practice their religion. On his first day, the Pope told diplomats in Ankara that religions must "not seek to exercise direct political power." On Thursday, he and Bartholomew I, Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the tiny Orthodox community in Turkey, delivered a joint statement that insisted that religious "minorities must be protected, with their cultural traditions and the distinguishing features...
...While the genocide convention is relatively explicit about obligating its signatories to intervene to prevent genocide where it is occurring or preparing to occur, more often than not the world has declined to do so. And no one seriously believes that if widespread genocide unfolded in Iraq that the U.S. would be able to do anything about it. "The arc of humanitarian intervention has already been killed by Iraq for at least a generation," says Power. The clearest example of that is in Sudan. The United States has declared that genocide against the inhabitants of the Darfur region is under...
...Yale rap group’s annual Harvard-Yale battle anthem has continued to garner criticism from undergraduates even after The Game for its explicit references to sexual violence...
...Sexual Harrassment advisers, a group of tutors in each undergraduate House who serve as "first responders" to students with concerns about relationship abuse and other matters. The Nov. 22 article "Students Offended at Rap Song's Lyrics," which reported on a SASH-sponsored discussion in Eliot House about sexually explicit lyrics in a Yale rap group's song, missated SASH's full name...