Word: nicely
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...especially inapplicable to the academic disciplines it targets, the social sciences. The social sciences occupy a hazy realm of interpretation and bias. The verifiable accuracy demanded by AIA is as foreign to the social sciences as subjective interpretation is to basic algebra. We can assert--to take a nice, safe example--that Marx formulated his theories in the mid-nineteenth century; but beyond that, we can say little without provoking objections from a dozen different academic factions with far better credentials than those...
Bush: Gee, isn't that nice...
...English and Americans particularly, because they are tremulous, neurotic bags of bone reduced by sexual malnutrition, find all Italians irresistible. Gentlemen who agree with this premise are often to be found in hotels during festa times when numerous visitors, to-ing and fro-ing at odd times, create a nice smorgasbord. Don Giovanni prowls the hallways, listening to accents and watching the sway of buttocks. He selects a recipient for his gifts and tracks her down to her door. He knocks and keeps knocking, asking for one small moment, pliss. If you've glanced at his wares and found them...
...council has not tackled the big issues on student agendas: the paucity of good core courses, problems with teaching fellows and sections, and problems with grading in some departments. Chocolate milk, grants, and foam fingers are nice, but academics are why we all came to Harvard...
Jorge is a law-abiding citizen of Santiago, an academic. He drives a Fiat, goes to the movies, shops at the overflowing markets, and lives in a nice part of town very near General Pinochet. At 2 or 3 a.m. most nights, he receives phone calls. The anonymous, "unofficial" callers say, "Your children are dead meat. We will cut off their arms and legs." And so on. About twice a year, Jorge attends the funeral of a friend who has disappeared in the middle of the night. Also unofficial...