Word: honest
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...heated dispute over alcohol grants—over the course of the year, UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 said that his general sense of Pilbeam remained positive. “He always made it clear what he thought about things—he was always honest and open about where he stood,” said Sundquist, who as vice president signed a lengthy—and unusually personal—missive attacking Pilbeam for his decision on alcohol grants last fall. “Being a transitional dean is a really hard job to begin...
...challenging, honest and fascinating talk, whether you agreed with it or not,” he said in an e-mail yesterday...
...George Washington certainly did; his book of maxims (distributed, free of charge, to generations of American schoolchildren) includes this resolution: “I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest...
...France’s more recent oversteps in colonial Algeria? Perhaps education design should be left to the educators, and not the politicians. It is, of course, difficult to ask or impel any major power to come to grips with its past errors, but the nearer states draw to honest self-assessment the more remote the prospect of future atrocities becomes...
...advocacy coincided with statewide political concern again, with the laudable efforts of those supporting reform to the CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information) system. CORI currently allows for the felonies and misdemeanors of released offenders to be available far too long after the offense, prohibiting these citizens from reentering an honest occupation. This results in the re-arrest of over two thirds of releasees within just three years. Gov. Patrick also developed praiseworthy policy solutions to address this problem, authoring the CORI reform bill that, if passed, would lower the sealing of felony records from 15 years to just...