Word: profound
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Your recent editorial on Asian-American admissions contained serious factual errors and betrayed a profound misunderstanding of the College's admission policy and its objectives. Our faculty, our undergraduate students, and our alumni/ae have worked too hard for us to allow such inaccuracies to hinder our effort to recruit and admit Asian American applicants...
...laude, before choosing music as his profession. "Both fields are very abstract," he says in an interview, "and both give a similar type of pleasure. They both involve the pleasure of puzzle-solving and the pleasure of craftsmanship, and seem to put you in touch with something humanistically profound." Unlike most other fields, he says, social utility is rarely a chief motivation...
...shows. Finally he lamented the practice of changing racially offensive lyrics in songs like Ol' Man River, likening it to Soviet rewriting of history books. Said Michel: "That doesn't wash well with me." After a howl of protest from black leaders, Michel apologized. "My regret is even more profound," said he, "because I believe my public record of over 32 years as a Congressman is without the slightest blot of bigotry or racial insensitivity." True enough, until last week...
Women's basketball in the Northeast suffers from a profound lack of respect. Regardless of some teams with high won-loss records and impeccable regular-season play, squads in the Northeast rarely land a bid in a post-season tournament...
...This case, in fact, arises in the context of a profound policy dispute between the executive and legislative branches with respect to foreign affairs," the department said in its brief...