Word: functions
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...What I wanted in general was for the Record to function responsibly as a campus newspaper, and what I wanted specifically was a retraction and an apology," Nesson said. "They asked me if it was OK if Fenno retracted and apologized, and I said...
...alike, take the name multicultural student center at face value and let their imagination fill in the rest. A multicultural student center should be a resource center for different groups on campus ranging from the Carribean club to the Polish society modeled after the Lyman common room. Its primary function is educational and political. Educational because of its resources of books, videos, and equipment; a group by itself may not be able to afford such necessities as a copier or fax. Political because it provides a space for meetings and affirms the fact that Harvard University as a whole intends...
...agree with Fenno's defenders that anonymity serves a useful function in works of criticism. As Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60 illuminated, there is a "long tradition of anonymous publications" which challenge official institutions. The Federalist Papers were, in fact, originally published under the name Publius. The Supreme Court recently declared a ban on anonymous publications for a political campaign unconstitutional. Seen in this light, Fenno becomes one in a long line of writers challenging dominant perceptions through an anonymous voice because of an environment otherwise hostile to criticism...
...sent,? he said hopefully, ?that message has been corrected." Maybe not. Starr sounded desperate to quash any hopes that the investigation was winding down, answering one reporter's question about "the people's right to know" with a thoughtful promise to "seriously consider" what he called "the public information function." How could a Washington denizen like Starr so grossly underestimate his own significance as the head of the Whitewater crusade? Starr protested his innocence, saying it had taken "consultations with my professional colleagues" to show him the error of his ways. There are times when Malibu just has to wait...
What is being done for (or perhaps to) today's unconventional children? Those who don't fit into standard or acceptable modes of teacher-student or parent-child interaction are still obliged to function within those structures, somehow, someway. We all know kids who fit the mold of not fitting the mold. We volunteer with them, we babysit them, and perhaps at one point we were even one of them...