Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cause of diversity also suffers under this new housing method. In an ideal world, all of Harvard's houses would resemble those in the Quad, where no racial or ethnic group vastly outnumbers the others. Under randomization, people will be thrown together haphazardly and many groups, namely Blacks, will see the voice they have gained in such houses as Pforzheimer, Cabot and Currier eliminated. Without the numbers, Blacks will have little to no say in deciding which types of programs and events a house will host. The natural consequences will be alienation and withdrawal from the house, both mentally...
...only a third of patients survived more than three years. They were dying, Najarian knew, mainly because of tissue rejection. Their immune systems targeted transplanted organs as foreign and marshaled white blood cells to destroy the invaders. But Najarian saw a solution. With a colleague, he worked out a method for purifying a new drug called antilymphocyte globulin, or ALG, a potent cocktail of antibodies capable of countering the lethal reaction...
Several teaching fellows in the class said thatthey thought the group's method of study waspermissible...
...connections to the bombing at the World Trade Center, this time in Oklahoma City we have no one else to blame. It's not hard to realize the fact that a tolerant government is actually providing its hideous adversaries with resources they should never have access to. The method of generously distributing weapons and training in the name of creating an environment where weapons are used properly, instead of taking them all away, is just like drinking poison to quench one's thirst; ammunition flows almost smoothly into the hands of the very people that the rifle program intends...
Rousseau's Dog is not meant to encourage spinoffs, or copycat theses. Kennedy warns that her method was suggested naturally by Rousseau's own thinking and should not be used as a widespread model: "It would be presumptuous and vaguely absurd of me to propose the dog as a new category for general use in feminist analysis: the last thing we need is another set of cumbersome and contested terms. I am far from suggesting that we should take up the question of Nietzsche's dog or Dostoevsky...