Word: insist
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...ROCOR's American clergy insist that they retain administrative independence over their churches even as they recognize the Moscow Patriarch as their Head. Filatov says that the ROCOR has "about as much [independence] as Eastern Europe's 'people's democracies' had in the Soviet bloc." One of the first tests of the new union will be in the Holy Land, where the ROCOR maintains religious properties - and has had run-ins with representatives of the Moscow patriarchate in the past. In 1997, for example, Yasser Arafat forcibly turned over the only Christian church in Hebron, run by the ROCOR...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
...recent e-mail was a bit more striking than the rest. The e-mail, from HMS’s Office of Public Affairs, contained a “vignette” emphasizing that the medical school would insist on “evidence-based” approaches to medical education. Doctors call medical therapies “evidence-based” only if clinical trials–as opposed to mere anecdotal experience–have suggested that the therapies are effective. The medical school wants to establish a new Center for Evaluation to apply the academic gold standard...
...many Americans, prefer to pretend that class is something that exists out there. We can bemoan widening inequality America—even trumpet our own socioeconomic diversity (thanks to the Harvard Financial Aid initiative) to the outside world—without ever turning the gaze inward. Harvard students, many insist, occupy the same social playing field. Financial aid is generous; everyone eats the same dining hall food and lives in the same dorms. Due to public transportation and the paucity of parking in Cambridge, few students drive around flashy cars. In short, there are few ways for us to materially...
...their paper and pens delivered. In describing his own management style, Romney draws none-too-subtle contrasts with the current occupant of the Oval Office. Romney loves "wallowing in the data," he says, and is not comfortable making a decision unless he has heard opposing viewpoints. "I will insist on someone disagreeing," Romney adds, "and then I want to insist on data and analysis...