Word: manifestant
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Especially when, as any admissions officer will admit over a drink, it is almost impossible to determine who in a pile of reasonably bright 17-year-olds will turn out to be the best student three years from now, let alone manifest the guts and creativity needed for a stellar career. British students specialize early. They win university places on the basis of three written exams graded by strangers, usually teachers on holiday with a big pile to get through. To claim that the results of this process provide some self-evidently fair and complete measure of potential to excel...
...Rydingsvard’s work is largely intuitive. The viewer immediately grasps the shape and form of her figures and the materials are manifest throughout. No attempt is made to disguise any part of the work; all is open for view. In one instance a staircase was even appended to a work so that viewers could peek down into its hollow center...
...most repressive in the world —worse than Libya and Syria, worse even than China. They have been arrested for “disrespect,” for “dangerousness,” for “conduct that is in manifest contradiction with the norms of socialist morality.” And none of them will be teaching at Harvard next semester...
...Harvard students have noted an increase of anti-Israel bias inside the classroom. Professors perpetuate the Zionist-racist calumny that corrupted the United Nations for fifteen years. A professor helps to prosecute the Arab war against Israel by holding Israel responsible for the aggression against it. Teaching assistants routinely manifest their bias instead of presenting a critically balanced analysis. These are only some of the anguished laments I have been hearing from Jewish and other students who identify with Israel’s cause...
...There are a lot of the same themes and problems that manifest themselves in different cultures,” Chang said...