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Sections are often reduced to something they are not meant to be: condensed outlines of the lectures and one sentence distillations of readings. Instead of thought-provoking discussions centered around questions like "Melissa, what does Locke overlook in his theory of property?" students are often subjected to an hour-long barrage of questions like "Andy, could you summarize the main points of this week's article...
...spots that showed carabinero security forces beating citizens. In return, police provided protection for opposition rallies and marches. Yet such fragile alliances could easily be shattered by embarrassing demands. For example, most opposition groups want to prosecute the military for human- rights violations. But moderate parties are willing to overlook old abuses in exchange for assurances that new ones will not occur...
...overlook the subtleties of rugby...
...flew past the planet at a distance of only 6,100 miles, transmitting 22 television pictures of a bleak, moonlike landscape, pockmarked by craters and showing no signs of life. Even so, hope persisted. To demonstrate that a Mariner flyby at a distance of thousands of miles might completely overlook a thriving civilization, a young and still unknown Carl Sagan that same year sifted through a thousand pictures of earth shot by a weather satellite orbiting only 300 miles up. In a paper entitled "Is There Life on Earth?" he reported that only one photograph, of a snow-covered superhighway...
...think one can start this process with a prediction of inside or out," Bok said. "It would be a big mistake not to pay attention to any potential source of candidates, since it is a difficult job. We do not want to overlook outside possibilities any more than inside ones...