Word: lack
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...This lack of understanding of the biracial and multiracial identity is not just limited to student groups, but extends to the courses offered by the College. Harvard's lack of ethnic studies departments, with the exception of the renowned Department of Afro-American Studies, has been often lamented. Yet even more mainstream minority groups have a wider variety of classes to choose from if they wish to explore their unique cultural heritages...
Harvard's lack of recognition of multiracial and biracial identities is reflected in American society. For instance, recall the recent uproar over allowing individuals to check more than one box for race on the census. Government bureaucrats protested against this proposal for years, arguing that it would skew figures needed to determine if minorities were receiving equal access to government programs...
...most recent game, the Crimson fell 72-63 to Northeastern despite leading by as much as seven points in the second half. Besides the gaping hole in the offense, the Crimson's other problems seem to be a lack of stamina in a young rotation...
...dramatic life outside precinct houses and hospital wards. Aaron Sorkin's White House series is a love story of people and their jobs that overcomes its speechifying tendencies and tics (half the action takes place as characters stalk down corridors) with verbal gunplay, public-policy triage and an appealing lack of cynicism--about, of all things, politics...
...referred to "a lone British researcher who claimed--somewhat dubiously--that g.m. [genetically modified] potatoes damaged his lab rats." Given the lack of research into the effects of g.m. foods, doesn't it seem odd that the British government would not try to determine whether the g.m. potatoes did or did not damage internal organs and compromise the immune system of rats, if not humans? To me, this is the story. MATTHEW HODGES Cambridge, Mass...