Word: methodic
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Like all meals at Annenberg, the inaugural dinner was served using the scatter system, a method of food distribution that separates the different types of food within the servery, rather than the traditional cafeteria line used in the Freshman Union...
...number of accredited service programs run by students. This would encourage student groups to create innovative opportunities for students to fulfill their requirements. Or alternatively, service-learning courses could be folded into the curriculum. (My vote would be for Moral Reasoning 101r: "Widely Applied Ethics.") Whatever the method, the university should demonstrate its commitment to civic involvement...
This decrease suggests that merchants are heeding the crackdown on underage smoking passed by the City Council last spring. While the city's method of monitoring enforcement--sending local teenagers undercover to purchase cigarettes--borders on entrapment, such measures are needed to combat the growing problem of teenage tobacco abuse. Recent studies have estimated that more than three million minors abuse tobacco, leading the Clinton administration to call such widespread use a "pediatric disease." In a year when smoking among eighth graders is up 30 percent and more kindergarteners can identify Joe Camel than Ronald McDonald, the city's actions...
...Speech to the Chamber of Deputies, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that no happening is "an isolated event...[for] each individual fact mirrors and illuminates the whole." Such a universalizing synecdoche may seem extreme at first, but actually outlines a method of social theorizing that could lead many volunteers to a clearer understanding of their service. As John Boesche explicates the Tocquevillian method of social analysis, society "resembles a delicately balanced mobile in which every aspect settles into its position as a result of the compromise and influence of every other...
Rather, this editorial is directed to Harvard's students who aren't reading today's Crimson. Or today's Times. Or Journal. Or any other paper. Or watching the nightly news tonight. Or keeping up on current affairs by some other method, such as via the Internet...