Word: functionally
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...over the past year and spammed my inbox with explanations of why theirs is the tool I can’t possibly live or work here without. While the sites run the gamut in terms of style and scope, they can be roughly categorized according to their intended function...
...benefit all of us. "Greed is good," declared Michael Douglas, playing a corrupt financier in the movie Wall Street. More accurately, greed is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. And in moderation, economists argue and history demonstrates, greed is no bad thing. Free-market economies could not function if we were all Mother Teresa...
...Interhouse restrictions such as those enforced at Adams House function merely as a temporary band-aid in redressing the lopsided demand for particular dining halls, attributable to superior geography and quality of cuisine. As one Dunster House resident explained last night, on her way out of dinner at Adams: “It seems kind of silly to walk all the way down [to Dunster] when the food sucks.” If Harvard University Dining Services is serious about permanent and effective crowd control at mealtimes, it will work harder to ensure greater equality among Harvard?...
This is partly an inevitable function of age and class: we are college students, usually low on funds and time and in possession of dubious proof of our drinking legality. Still, Harvard life is laden with opportunities to play at adulthood—if ones that you might never again encounter after graduation—so it follows that we undergraduates should at least consider playing gourmand.Which is why, on a recent Tuesday night, I found myself skipping Quincy dining hall in favor of Harvest restaurant and partaking of one of their regular wine dinner events. This particular dinner...
...mainstream press has tended to frame the controversy as a latter-day Scopes Trial—a conflict between religious zealots on one side and proponents of scientific rationalism on the other. And, to be sure, many people’s opposition to such research is an understandable function of their faith. Yet while the media are loath to acknowledge it, there is also a very solid case against stem-cell research based not in religiosity, but in logic and simple moral reasoning...