Word: objectively
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...prosecutors don't bring charges and juries don't convict. Take the case of Jonathan Schmitz, who killed a gay man who said during the taping of the Jenny Jones Show that he had a crush on Schmitz. Schmitz was convicted of second-degree murder. Was being the object of gay affection such understandable humiliation that the charges were ameliorated...
...bigots do not object to liberal women speaking at Commencement. We object to a constant parade of liberal women, selected at the expense of the truly exceptional. We do not object to ethnic literature. We object to the outright politicization of a required instructional program, and the elevation of good writing to great writing simply because it is penned by minority authors...
...People are usually surprised to find out that there is an entire mathematical theory devoted to studying a commonplace object such as a knot," she said. "It was tough choice for me choosing whether to write about tilings or knots, but the Harvard math department has great mathematicians doing exciting knot theory research...
...course, descriptions of the subjects of these pieces do little justice to Mansen's art, since, as he says and a work like Studio implies, his subject, ultimately, is the artistic object itself. Mansen speaks convincingly of the care he takes in choosing the discarded lumber and furniture he uses to make his wood blocks, how the difficult process of woodcut creates a beneficial restraint that painting lacks. One cannot even begin to describe a work like "Das Haus" (The House), three 24-foot prints which depict all the residents of a house, and their activities. Mansen comments: "Over...
WASHINGTON: The 1998 edition of Bill Clinton may be a lame duck, but the 1995 version still packs plenty of punch. With the budget fight on Capitol Hill steaming toward a surprisingly peaceful conclusion, Trent Lott -- long the Senate's most immovable object -- is suddenly playing Great Compromiser to the White House, greasing the legislative wheels with encouraging words about getting out of town by Wednesday with a budget deal...