Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Duda, Crompton suggested having several instructors teach the course, with each teaching only a few classes, but the teaching fellows seemed to oppose this idea...
However, Klein said he had "no idea" why Harvard undergraduates who were not transfer students would not be in the council's database...
...done American religion a disservice. He makes it clear in the Times article that he thinks Americans can capture the social and personal benefits of religion without belief. Doubt, however, is not as problem-free as Miles makes it sound. Sitting in church may not be the best idea for every agnostic. Miles writes as if church attendance promises perfect calm and love for everyone, but for the skeptic, it may just introduce more big questions to worry about...
...Cops in Shops" program is underhanded. Police officers pose as store clerks, shelf-stockers and customers while waiting for an underage person to attempt an alcohol purchase. The idea of undercover police officers camping out in convenience stores is disturbing in and of itself. Further, rather than identifying fake ID's and making their arrests based on that offense alone, the cops allow the illegal purchase of alcohol to take place so that they can tack on further charges. This seems to serve no purpose other than increasing the severity of the punishment that victims of the sting receive...
...corollary to the idea that race can override deficiencies is that if all other things are equal, the minority candidate should be chosen. This eminently defensible case, in which race is a mere tiebreaker and not a be-all-and-end-all that wakes conservatives in a cold sweat, is the Taxman case. Seniority being equal, the Piscataway School Board chose the woman who lent diversity in addition to business savvy...