Word: functions
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...graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School, Roemer said his major function as a fellow will be "to listen to students, which is more powerful than speaking and is the first part of teaching...
Another conservative student group, the Conservative Club, serves a different function. Members discuss works of major conservative writers, says Sumner E. Anderson '92, the organization's president...
...when springing it would be most damaging. The grind of press conferences, debates, primaries, caucuses has often been vilified in the past as no test of anything about a candidate except his glibness and powers of endurance. But a mercifully shortened campaign season can and should fulfill a different function, subjecting an intriguing but largely ambiguous new face to a rigorous examination of his character, accomplishments, failures, ideas and ideals. Clinton should be put through a competency test tougher than any he imposed on Arkansas teachers. The nation will benefit whether he passes or flunks...
Politicians and diplomats have already coined a phrase, "the crisis of peace," for the postwar dilemma. Aside from the obstacles posed by unrepentant zealots on both sides in the protracted political struggle, there is a legitimate question about whether the country will function any better united than it does when bloodily riven. Poverty, social inequality, overreliance on U.S. financial handouts, simmering disputes over land and ideology, and a choking residue of hatred from the war all conspire against success in rebuilding the shattered land. Says National Assembly Vice President Ruben Zamora, who is close to the insurgents: "Peace generates huge...
...event of a strike, Vallone said, "We will still teach. We will still conduct research. The university will still function...