Word: flourish
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...fixed prices on major commodities. "It was clearly Andreas' show," reports TIME's William McWhirter. "He looked tan and fit and superconfident, so much so that at the very end, he plucked a red rose from a vase on the stage and popped it into his lapel." An accidental flourish: the meeting was held in an old gymnasium in an abandoned school next to ADM's main processing plant in Decatur, complete with the original basketball scoreboard. "For this game," says McWhirter, "the score was ADM 30, opposition...
...staff editorial "Ethnic Studies Is Not A Discipline" (October 10, 1995), The Crimson staff acknowledges the importance of diverse academic perspectives, yet it fails to recognize that a program in Ethnic Studies would provide those very perspectives in whose absence no meaningful dialogue can flourish. The Academic Affairs Committee is heartened that The Crimson endorses "all attempts to diversify Harvard's faculty," defined in the editorial as "expand[ing] the diversity of academic perspectives within the faculty." However, we take issue with The Crimson's inability "to see where existing departments at Harvard fail in this regard." The current lacking...
...agree that there needs to be a flourishing program. But such a pro- gram cannot flourish in the absence of concrete courses," said Veronica S. Jung '97, AAC co-chair...
...There is surely no one way, and no single methodology, to study race and ethnicity," Knowles wrote in an August 25 letter to the student members of the Academic Affairs Committee who authored the report "Such studies properly flourish in the humanities and in the social sciences. It makes no sense to try to impose substantive or methodological uniformity on a vibrant field marked by extraordinary intellectual variety...
...second-guessing one of its own tenured faculty, the University is violating the sacred pact that has allowed ideas of all kinds to flourish for so many years. Even worse, the Medical School has set an unfortunate precedent for future episodes involving unorthodox professors. The incident raises some troubling questions that we should consider. Will future Medical School faculty and administrators appeal to this incident as a precedent for investigating others with opinions that are unconventional or politically incorrect? Will the Tosteson-Rehlman rationale be employed by deans in other faculties less restrained than Knowles to investigate the likes...