Word: methodical
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...liberal arts, University Hall must remember why Harvard teaches the liberal arts. It is not so that students leave knowing skill-sets or canons of materials, but rather that they leave knowing some and thirsting for more. Knowledge for knowledge’s sake is neither a pedagogical method nor a vocational skill; it is a metaphysical belief asserting that studying the universe enriches the lives of those who try. The power to decide the pathway to this goal must be released from the bureaucratic rule of committee and given to the individual student...
...efficient way to do that. There's so much civil litigation out there already - now that they do not have a criminal conviction to anchor their forfeiture upon, this is nothing more than another civil suit. It's a use of taxpayer dollars to attempt to recover in a method that's really duplicative of many of these civil suits...
...disappointed that your story did not mention what everyone should know about Chávez: there is legitimate opposition to his rule in Venezuela, but his method for dealing with it has been to replace the legislature and decree that all law come from a special council he appointed. The judicial branch of the Venezuelan government was packed with Chávez loyalists, and the constitution was rewritten. He might have come to power by the ballot box, but he has remained in power using different tools. In short, Chávez is actually the kind of President that many...
...Baylor has noted, this is certainly unique compared to the old method of trying to predict what people would do by which denomination they belonged to. Over the last few decades that has proven to be an ever-weakening predictor of moral and political behavior, particularly as denominational definitions have become more elastic and fewer people are attending a church because of the specifics of its doctrine. The current sociological truism is that a Methodist who finds his way to church three times a week and a Catholic who attends daily Mass have more in common than either does with...
Yunus’ strategy of mutual benefit sets him apart from the Nobel laureates before him who labored to address poverty. He has been both praised and criticized for finding a method that not only helps the poor but also allows the financial markets to tap into the 86 percent of the globe’s population that has had little or no access to bank loans. Yunus’ prize honors not just his specific strategy, however, but also his impulse to redefine how we look at the problem of global poverty. Microfinance demonstrates that what matters...