Word: path
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush's "naive support for democracy in countries that aren't ready for it." Wrong! The Iraqi people are more than ready, as shown by their participation in the elections held there. It is the terrorists who aren't ready and have done all they can to block the path to democracy. Jim Robinson, SHANGHAI...
After her year with Americorps, Woo, then 21, began taking the train from her Lexington apartment to Bunker Hill Community College, using funding from One Family Scholars, which provides homeless or formerly homeless women with scholarships to use education as a path out of poverty...
...major categories, as with Crash and Brokeback Mountain two years. Nuh-uh. It's the runaway years, when billion-dollar blockbusters like Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King get what are essentially People's Choice awards, and its makers wear a path in the rug from their seats to the stage. Moviegoers who are TV viewers don't want horse races; they want coronations - validations that somebody in Hollywood is ready to honor the movies they love...
...this specific brand of advocacy. Yet those that were the targets of student activism are now supposed to study and stoke it. This is not only ironic but impractical—a University’s job is to educate and cultivate students, not force them along a particular path with that education. If administrators really want to serve students and engage them politically, they would do best to focus on improving Harvard’s lagging academics and the student experience instead of trying to get students to protest...
...figures from a report by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). While increasing numbers of non-tenured faculty may be the norm at other colleges, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) consists mostly of professors with tenure or those who are on the path to tenure. “It’s quite the opposite at Harvard,” said Brian W. Casey, the FAS associate dean for academic affairs. “There was a conscious decision around the year 2000 to expand the tenured ranks.” Tenured or tenure...