Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long as we accept the goals of randomization, we must also support this latest move to reduce blocking group size. Sixteen-person blocking groups were simply too large. Rather than selecting a small group of potential roommates to enter the lottery with, many undergraduates sought to enter their new Houses with an entire social circle already intact. This represented a great obstacle to social mixing and has inhibited the development of a new, post-randomization House life. The ability to block with all of your friends certainly makes one feel safer and more secure, but the comfort of the individual...
There are good reasons to believe that 16-person blocking groups are not so damaging to House community. If students wanted to meet new people and felt that a 16-person blocking group would preclude them from doing so, they would not fill the blocking group; students have just as much interest in House community as masters or administrators...
...explained that according to Bentham, rights and obligations come in pairs. If person A has a right to some X, then some person or organization has a corresponding obligation to secure...
Perhaps our advancing society is telling me that my desires aren't sick at all. In fact, they demonstrate how I think of women as people, instead of animalistic sexual toys. Body hair is a fortress between me and the person I love, a way of preventing me from getting to know and respect her as a person. It's pathetic what I'll say to get a woman to shave...
...baldness. And in the ongoing tradition of avoidance, this new marketing tack allows men who harbor dark fears about their follicles? future to take decisive action to stave off potential hair loss, all while avoiding the dreaded ?b? word. ?The new campaign doesn?t say: You?re a bald person,? the campaign?s creative director told the Journal. ?It?s about offering an option...