Word: minds
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...euphemisms, to be exact--indicates the monolithic commitment to diversity among intellectuals today. Unfortunately, the intellectuals commit themselves only to specious diversity, to diversity they can quantify easily and trot out to belligerent students, faculty members and, most importantly, donors. They care little for true diversity, diversity of the mind and the soul. This short-hand diversity appears most clearly in the way intellectuals now defend affirmative action...
...they would first set rigorous and unyielding admissions standards and then look to the individual convictions and character of applicants, not their skin colors. Alas, they do not adopt this policy because it would result in less outwardly "diverse" students, and they cannot place inner diversity--diversity of the mind and the soul--on a pie chart. We are all the worse...
...demonstrated interest in under-graduate education and popularity as a professor make her selection particularly appropriate. Her high CUE Guide scores are a mere reflection of Her devotion to the life of the mind in undergraduates. The attention she devotes to her classes is an auspicious sign that Lowell House will be in good hands. Austin's work at Drew University should also provide a useful outside perspective on life at Harvard...
...ticketing, or electronic ticketing, is "much easier" than purchasing tickets over the telephone, according to a United Airlines representative who asked to remain anonymous. According to the representative, E-tickets have become the "preferred method of ticketing" because all one needs is a destination in mind, a credit card in hand and a computer at your fingertips. To purchase an E-ticket, a customer logs onto an on-line reservation service, selects the departure city, destination city and date of travel and then types his or her credit card number onto an encrypted web page. The E-ticket becomes reserved...
Radio, it seems, hasn't died; it just faded away for a bit. And for those of us who prefer radio's beauty in creating adventures in the mind's eye, its latest resurgence has come none too soon...