Word: ponderings
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...answers to these questions may be different for each person, but it is important to explore this issue. We must all ask ourselves why we participate in the activities we do. We must ponder the extent to which segregation is present on Harvard's campus and question if and why diversity is even important to us. By keeping out own views to ourselves, problems remain hidden and stereotypes perpetuate. Only in being honest to ourselves can we be honest with each other...
...urge Dean Lewis to sign our bill as a powerful statement of women's equality at Harvard-Radcliffe. But, I also hope that all members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community will take this opportunity to ponder the fact that history did not begin in 1977 with a formal agreement of partnership between Harvard and Radcliffe. Nor will it start over with any future renegotiation of this agreement...
...faculty members in high school because of my mother, but at lower levels, I do not remember feeling comfortable at any time to speak with the teacher or discuss with classmates. This feeling of isolated individualism carried over into the academic realm. Rarely were we encouraged as students to ponder methods of inquiry in depth at an early stage in the learning process. Only on a cursory level was investigation and imagination fostered--there was always rote memorization, an atmosphere of discipline and a strictly structured day to inhibit free thought...
...wipe out all of Iraq's hidden poisons and gases, because the U.S. does not know where they are. Nor are bombs likely to topple Saddam or force him to change his ways. The planes might blast their targets, but if Saddam still maintains his defiance, Clinton has to ponder what the next American move will be. In fact, decision makers in Washington are still wrestling with the possibility that Saddam actually wants the U.S. to attack. He could then lay out his corpses for television cameras, strike a victim's pose and fend off forever any effort to locate...
...this buoyant period in the life of a scandal is short-lived. It is inevitably followed by a second period in which journalists debate whether the first period was needlessly excessive. Commentators on television round-tables ponder whether or not there was a "rush to judgement." Between advertisements for cat food and diarrhea medications, the assembled high priests of the journalism profession solemnly lament their dismal performance and vow to be more circumspect the next time they haul somebody's sex life into public view...