Word: mattered
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Anyway, we've come a long way Harvard--it wasn't long ago that the College blithely took pride in its students, and now it can matter-of-factly state that letting all of these students into each other's dorms is a proposition too dangerous to risk. But you haven't come far enough yet. As they say on TV, "Trust no one, not even the 6400 students you handpicked and now bear sole responsibility for educating, feeding and molding into mature and crime-free human beings." Thanks for you time...
...responded that my words were significant, regardless of Ellison's original intentions. Once an author releases his book to the public, he said, the public is free to make any use of it. Somewhat mollified, I approached one of my Harvard professors, and she agreed. "It doesn't matter what Ellison may or may not have intended," she said. "It's what you think that counts...
...this reason that, in the end, I side more with the academic relativists. It's not that I believe there is no Truth, or for that matter, that there are innumerable Truths. Rather, I feel that as we struggle towards that which we seek but do not know, it is only natural that we err along the way. As members of an academic community, we should feel free to innovate, and risk erring. Only then can we advance. But errors and flaws should be recognized as such--not celebrated mindlessly for simply existing as viable arguments...
Ideas may matter, but in this disaffected political moonscape, organization matters more. Democratic strategists are quietly urging candidates to move their money out of advertising and into get-out-the-vote efforts. That may mean winning voters one at a time. On Friday in Portland, retiree Judy Carlson Kelley ignored admonishments from the First Lady's staff and asked her to sign a copy of her book. Thrilled when she did, Kelley asked, What can we do for you in return? Hillary nodded at Wu and said, "Get this man elected...
...house, her tenant Mr. Mallory, an elderly eccentric who moved from Philadelphia late in his life to wander the streets taking photographs. Against her will, Kassima begins to care about her increasingly enfeebled housemate, another death in her life waiting to happen. If she can let Mr. Mallory matter to her, why not Robert Jones...