Word: profound
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...career choice promised him safety and security. As a schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust, but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his imperiled students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what he had to do. It's impossible to say how God's hand plays into such things, but no matter how miraculous Librescu's survival during World War II, moments before his brave death, he became a doomed but beautiful...
...Committee on Social Clubs make decisions on student life without any student representation whatsoever. And when there is student representation, their voice is greatly overshadowed and even ignored.The decisions that these committees make often reflect this attitude—rulings and decrees come down from upon high reflecting a profound ignorance (or perhaps apathy) of the student experience at Harvard. The report of the Committee on Social Clubs is a case in point. Despite virtually uniform student protestation (which the committee was kind enough to duly note in their report), the Committee went on to recommend holding student leaders responsible...
Over the past 26 years, France has been led by two presidents, François Mitterand and Jacques Chirac, who came from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, but who shared an inability to address the profound identity crisis that France has been undergoing. By now, French voters seem to recognize that without a major course correction, the country has little to look forward to other than growing social unrest and long-term economic decline...
...stagnation has been greatly affected by the French population’s profound resistance to change, which has left democratically elected politicians little room to maneuver. Remarkably, this resistance is particularly concentrated in the French youth...
...whose career choice promised him safety and security. As a schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust; but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what to do. Librescu became a doomed but beautiful guardian angel to the students who are alive because of his heroism...