Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?" the First Lady said when asked whether the newest news medium needed curbing. "There used to be this old saying that the lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. Well, today, the lie can be twice around the world before the truth gets out of bed to find its boots...
Alexander Nguyen, in "Marketing Diversity" (Opinion, Jan. 30), presents what is in my opinion a seriously flawed vision of the way ethnic groups on Harvard's campus should function. Nguyen asserts that the sole legitimate purpose of ethnic groups on campus is to educate the Harvard community about themselves, and that any events which lack an educational component "undermine" the rationale for the existence of the group...
Social events run by ethnic groups fall under particular attack by Nguyen, especially if the publicity for these events is targeted only at members of the ethnicity. However, the ethnic dining hall tables that Nguyen cites bespeak another critical function of ethnic groups: to enable members of the same ethnicity to meet each other and develop friendships--in short, to interact socially. Harvard is a big and intimidating place, and many undergraduates find support in their smaller ethnic communities. Nguyen suggests that this is wrong; I assert that it is natural. Just as knitting circles are formed for people...
...MESS Contrary to long-held views, doctors now find that multiple sclerosis not only damages the sheaths surrounding nerves but also severs the nerves. Once nerves are cut, function is gone...
...addition to his research, Meister teachesMolecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) 138,"Function of Neural Systems" this semester andtaught MCB 117, "Experimental Neuroscience" lastfall...