Word: extents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neither side on board, but instead of bombs, the Serb president got another three-week extension -- bombing Milosevic into acquiescence wasn't an option as long as his enemies played hard to get. Says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic, "While the U.S. and the international community are playing down the extent of the failure at Rambouillet, Milosevic is the only winner here because the refusal of the ethnic Albanians to sign has allowed him to wriggle out undamaged...
...poor. We dislike them because they are dirty, not recognizing that Au Bon Pain will not let them use the bathroom. But if they are well groomed, we dislike them too, because they obviously could get a job if they wanted to. Thus, for adults, we often inflate the extent to which they can use their individual agency to overcome structural social barriers. Kids are much easier...
...point is not to deny that kids are needy. Rather, the preference of Harvard students involved in public service to serve kids betrays the extent to which they are still tainted by the same blame-the-victim mentality they sometimes like to accuse others of harboring. Alexander T. Nguyen '99 is a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. The answer to the first question is a), which only used to be true. His column will appear on alternate Mondays...
...extent that De Hooch made allegories of virtue at all, he certainly didn't try to shove them down the viewer's throat. His morality was all sympathy; he wasn't in any direct way a preacher. But in a time and place that put the strongest emphasis on the idea of the ordered, tranquil family as the basis of a just society, his visions of domesticity had a distinct symbolic point. Disorder, in the real world outside or the formal one inside his paintings, repelled him. Everything in his interiors is swept, garnished. De Hooch epitomizes the Dutch obsession...
...staff calls the recent drop in minority admissions an indication that non-affirmative action policies are "unfair." Quite the contrary. The radical drop instead reveals the absurd degree to which race had previously been a factor in admissions and thereby the extent to which non-minority applicants had been unjustly discriminated against...