Word: omitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...busy doing our job, which is to study. The University takes great pride in its public relations campaigns that the great minds in this student body study so well. It allows administrators to omit mention of how poorly they do their job. Lewis apparently sees his as bullying those he should be serving. That's right, Dean Lewis, your job is to serve us. We, the students, and our parents pay your salary. That makes you our employee...
...freedom at Harvard allows each professor to direct his or her own research. It allows each department to determine the content of its class. And it should allow each professor to determine what material is appropriate for the class's sourcebook. Copyright officer William G. Witt's decision to omit several photos of naked men from a Core sourcebook is a reprehensible violation of this principle...
...Bryson or Winter decided to omit the photos on the grounds of obscenity, they would have been within their rights. But instead they decided that the photos cited in the Mercer article were relevant to their students' education...
...absorption on behalf of the author. We can imagine the writer, typing away at his word processor (another spur to novel-writing these days: anyone with WordPerfect and memories of comic book adventures can churn out a 400-pager in a few days and modem it away) loath to omit any bit of abstruse technological research accrued over many sleepless nights of study. Perhaps the MA's are the breaks he allows himself. Perhaps Death By Fire is another example of how movies have infiltrated the minds of young writers everywhere, such that they cannot imagine planes without...
...treated like the next fellow; he would prefer that we acknowledge his genius, but make no fuss. ("How smart is Michael?" his wife was once asked. "How smart did he tell you he was?" she replied. It's a sly family). A fair world, he would say, would omit his private life from any public discussion...