Word: pointedly
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Exaggeration is a useful educational tool. However Ec 10's presentation of Rawlsian distributive justice is not just a case of using an extreme example to illustrate a point. The selective witholding of inconvenient parts of Rawls' assumptions is careless at best and dishonest at worst. If Rawls' ideas are only useful to Ec 10 in a severely mutated form, they should not be used...
Julia Prewitt Brown, 41, was a member of B.U.'s English Department from 1974 until she was denied tenure in 1981. At one point, university President John Silber termed the department "a damn matriarchy" although only only six out of 20 members of the department at the time were female, according to court testimony...
Wednesday night Harvard dropped a 19-point decision to the Holy Cross Crusaders. The Crimson had jumped out to the lead on the strength of a 20-8 first-half run. But the Crusaders dominated play late in the game, going on a 30-8 streak in the second half to seal the victory. It was the Crimson's third defeat in four games...
...years and years, the members of the [NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization] at annual meetingshave made a point of saying they favor theunification of Germany," said Shepard stone, chairof the Aspen Institute in Berlin. "Now they'rerunning around trying to stop it, or at least slowit down...
Everyone in this play smokes at one point or another. It's the director's way of showing us that these people are sensitive, artistic types. We'd never guess it on our own. They certainly don't dress like artists--Larry, inexplicably, is given to wearing sneakers and inside-out Mather House intramural t-shirts...