Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CLUH Co-Director Jol A. Silversmith '94 said that in order to be fair to both sides, it is unacceptable to "twist the tables" and create a situation of "guilty until proven innocent" by requiring proof of consent...
...lazy to say `I told you so' and that my fears about Harvard had sort of come true--my fear, that is, that the list of core courses taught by big name professors advertised in the application booklet as proof of professorial invovement in undergraduate life through the Core was just a clever way of allowing the College to answer in the affirmative that "Yes, professors do teach undergraduates...
...names while at Oxford, to dark hints that the young Arkansan may even have been planning to renounce his citizenship to avoid the draft. If Bush did have evidence for such charges that Clinton could not explain away, the results could be devastating. But so far no shadow of proof was forthcoming...
...classic modern plates ever actually use them? Does one's use of the rhetorical question and the impersonal pronoun disguise one's uneasiness with the subject, a fear of sounding effete about dishware? Why doesn't the Design Collection have any beer mugs on display? Is the form art-proof by definition? Is some wine-bound snobbery at work, even in utopia?" But you forgive the prof, `cause, ya know, this education thing is an uphill climb. A spoonful of sugar helps the culture go down, and, fortunately for us, Alfred Appel Jr. is as hopeful as the modernist masters...
...SUDDEN RISE of Chrislam had been traumatic equally to Rome and Mecca. Christianity was already reeling from John Paul XXV's eloquent but belated plea for contraception and the irrefutable proof in the New Dead Sea Scrolls that the Jesus of the Gospels was a composite of at least three persons. Meanwhile the Muslim world had lost much of its economic power when the Cold Fusion breakthrough, after the fiasco of its premature announcement, had brought the Oil Age to a sudden end. The time had been ripe for a new religion embodying, as even its severest critics admitted...