Word: extents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three years of classes I've taken. It seems as though my professors and most of my classmates share a common "knowledge" about the inanity of a belief in God and think that some of us have simply missed a great enlightenment. To a certain extent I agree--not with the notion that God is dead, but that something is missing...
...celebrating my heritage as a young black man in the second half of the twentieth century than in trumpeting my religion. I wonder how the Puritans who founded this institution would react to that. Despite my adviser's amiable response, I probably won't mention religion to any great extent in my senior thesis on community service as democratic participation. Nor will I offer the religious answers to secular questions I encounter in sections and discussions every day, answers that not only seem obvious to me but that seem right...
Formica tables and vinyl booths attracted customers from the nearby MBTA maintenance shops; beer, sausage and corned-beef sandwiches were the extent of the menus...
...also forbade investing in banks that made loans to the South African government and companies that provided "significant quantities of an important good or service used in the direct enforcement of apartheid." The policy also promised a divestment of stock in companies that refused to disclose the extent of their operations in South Africa...
...difference between the attitudes of these two schools can be explained by simple economics. Princeton, with the nation's largest endowment per student, can afford to lead the way into increased generosity. It can also--to some extent--afford to vie with Harvard in the bidding war Routh said he sees coming in the Ivy League. Yale, with a far smaller endowment per student than either school, cannot...