Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although Harvard is private, it serves a public function to the thousands of students who live by its laws and in its houses, and to the administrators and faculty members who care for its well-being. If Harvard's governing boards want Harvard to behave like a community, they must treat it like a community. And while the community does not have a right to know everything about a presidential search, it certainly deserves the dignity of a response...
...question has dimensions that are both social and personal. In Freudian terms, the law is supposed to perform the function of the superego, policing the wild and violent id. The Beirut principle goes to work when the id takes over from the superego and puts on a blue uniform, when authority goes wild...
Rolling Out The Red Carpet: In case you haven't heard, the ubiquitous zealots from the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) are broadening their horizons. AALARM will now function as an umbrella organization for four, count 'em, four separate committees: Life, Faith, Family and Policy. You can join one, or join...
...Princeton game, I was in severe pain," Weisbrod said, "and it was hard to bend down. The next morning at Army, I couldn't get out of bed. Hockey is a game where you play through pain, but this was debilitating to the point where you couldn't function...
...Work like Kagan's suggests that a chain may be uncovered linking behavioral traits like shyness to a brain function," Matthysse said...