Word: extents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dismaying because it suggests that white physicians are raving bigots who haven't progressed since the days when doctors routinely doubled or tripled the strength of X rays administered to blacks because they supposedly had thicker skin than Caucasians. To the contrary, what this study shows is the extent to which subconscious racist attitudes still afflict even highly educated, humane white people who sincerely believe they do not have a prejudiced bone in their body. In what might be called the Alfred E. Neuman syndrome--after the Mad magazine character whose doofus slogan was "What--me worry?"--people in this...
This is not to imply that single sex education in general cannot be beneficial to a certain extent. And in those colleges that have chosen to remain either all-male or all-female, a class such as the one Daly proposed would be entirely appropriate. The difference lies in remaining faithful to fundamental philosophy, in not making exceptions for one sex that are not made for the other. A single-sex institution is by definition choosing to exclude one or the other gender, and that decision is buttressed by every action the institution makes. Whether or not the individual agrees...
Carefully coifed and made-up, seeming quite at ease sitting on the couch opposite Barbara Walters, Lewinsky held her won for the extent of the two-hour discussion. She probably came off a little smarter than most of us expected her to be, but it was still a little eerie to see the intern, object of our president's affections and of the nation's disgust and ridicule for the last several months, giggling and chatting on national television. That's they way we handle things these days, though--nothing's really over until you see it deconstructed...
That, according to Cavanaugh, who now guardsLowell House, has been the extent of hisinstruction over the last nine years...
...happened when a mother "tried" banning television for a night. Absent any evidence to the contrary, it seems clear these children are consuming an excessive ration of TV each night. Television is bad enough in itself without pre-empting time that would be better spent on homework. To the extent that there is a homework problem, it is a failure of priorities. JOHN SILBER, CHAIRMAN Massachusetts Board of Education Boston