Word: methods
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...more unfortunate aspects of the Core proposal is the method by which it is being discussed and adopted. Harvard's administrators like to function in quiet, low-profile fashion, tinkering with the system but largely failing to consult the students--whom their plans will affect. True to form, the Core proposal has arrived with a minimum of student input. It is strangely presumptuous--almost insulting--to ask undergraduates to buy the idea that only a small number of Faculty members know enough about Harvard's problems to be able to suggest a replacement for the current system. The Faculty should...
After months of self-imposed restraint, leaders of the Labor Party opposition have resumed open criticism of the government's policies in the belief that their attacks could hardly damage the peace process as much as Begin's tactics have done. "Begin's method of negotiating on the Sinai was a mistake," says Opposition Leader Shimon Peres. "He didn't keep a fallback position. He started from the end, apparently forgetting that negotiations are supposed to result in each side giving something. What else did he expect to give?" Former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin makes virtually the same point...
...government of Israel," says Yitzhak Rabin, "has made too many mistakes, more than we can afford. The first mistake was in the method of negotiating with an Arab leader. One must make absolutely sure there is no misunderstanding, especially in private talks. Begin said Sadat promised that Egyptian forces would not move east of the Sinai passes. Later Begin admitted that this was in the context of Israeli forces withdrawing to the international border and the return of sovereignty over all the Sinai to Egypt. Still later it became clear that questions such as settlements and Israeli airbases were...
...therapy is unusual because it employs a substance naturally occurring in the cancerous cells. This method is part of what Wick called a "rational approach to chemotherapy," in which researchers try to kill cancerous cells without harming normal cells in the body...
...some folks in a dither, like Ehrlichman, who blasted Haldeman in Time magazine for representing his tennis serve as a "lash," and describing his neck cords as "straining." No such luck, says Ehrlichman, and what really got to him was Haldeman's use of the Woodward/Bernstein method of reconstructing quotes from memory, lines I never quoth, says Ehrlichman...