Word: extents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing else, one would think that academic success could determine the BMOC's among us. But academic standards are even more complicated than fame. We may all be graded on the same scale and then sorted into the same academic groupings, but that's about the extent of the uniformity of academic experience. Does an A received in a VES or computer science course carry the same weight as one in government or economics? And which is more admirable--four years spent engaging Kant, Plato and Nietzsche, or 50 hours a week researching in the biology labs...
...Kaustuv Sen's "In Defense of Business Careers" (Opinion, Dec. 1): Almost no one would refute that long-term economic growth eventually benefits almost all consumers, but I question the extent to which the positions Sen describes (consultants, entry-level managers, etc.) aid in this purpose. In a country where more than 80 percent of corporate stock is owned by 5 percent of the population, I wonder if balancing Merrill Lynch's checkbook has any direct affect on a poor family...
Starr's pining for the quiet life was part of his attempt to appear inoffensive, just a purveyor of evidence who is eager to retreat from Washington's partisan wars. And to the extent that he remained genial and G-rated throughout most of the day, mentioning the words sex and sexual only four times in his opening remarks and prefacing his comments deferentially with "you may disagree with me," or "I want to be fair," he succeeded. But presenting himself as the Mister Rogers of the Washington legal elite did not aid Starr in his bigger task--persuading anyone...
Dean's case seems common. Students said one reason they don't plan to dual submit when they are assigned papers is that few courses at the College overlap to the extent where dual submission is possible...
...Thus it is that American multiculturalism touts only the most obvious and easily accessible features of its various ethnic groups. Italian culture is tomato sauce and Sunday Mass and frescoes; Jewish culture is all about dreidels and yarmulkes and challah and concentration camps. This is what we know, the extent of what we see; and we, proud of our superficial knowledge of a culture other than our own, see little need to learn more. We have mastered the outward symbols of an ethnic group, but what lies underneath often escapes our childlike attention...