Word: failed
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Students who incorrectly fill in or fail to fill in the bubbles on their study card are fined and forced to file an add petition. I am writing to complain about this administration policy...
...National Academy of Sciences research team, David Ramirez, now a professor at California State University, followed 2,000 Latino schoolchildren. "It is a myth that if you want children to learn English, you give them nothing but English," says Ramirez. Both English-immersion and bilingual methods will fail, however, if classes are too crowded, taught by unqualified teachers, lacking in appropriate materials, or filled with the wrong combination of students--conditions that are all too common...
...have learned to keep their fears in perspective most of the time. They know their justified rage can be exploited, and have schooled themselves to distinguish between cynical appeals to their sense of racial injustice and valid pleas for the unjustly accused. What infuriates them is that whites often fail to make equivalent distinctions, dismissing blacks' protests against racist mistreatment as a tactic without bothering to investigate the mistreatment itself. And that is why the Simpson case is so divisive. Until blacks are convinced that the cops and the prosecutors are dealing fairly with them, they won't listen...
While we support all attempts to diversity Harvard's faculty--and by this we mean to expand the diversity of academic perspectives within the faculty--we fail to see where Harvard's existing departments fail in this regard. We have professors who examine intellectual history, and some few, perhaps, who still look at dialectical materialism as the prime mover, but we do not feel compelled to establish separate disciplines for their work...
...governmental framework recognizes the importance of material goods. Indeed, it has established an elaborate system for providing those goods to individuals who don't have them. What our government and laws fail to acknowledge, however, is that there are so many things that are more important than these goods--such as service to God and one's fellow...