Word: quos
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Sources within HDS and close to the committee have said that students and administrators are largely satisfied with the status quo...
Though he sometimes sounds like a champion of the status quo, with all its inequities, Scalia points out that it is not the court's job to decide what is right, only what is constitutional. When his fellow Justices cast themselves as moral arbiters, as he insisted they did in the V.M.I. case, their enterprise, he wrote, "is not the interpretation of a Constitution, but the creation of one." The one we have suits Scalia just fine...
...influential than our parents, civil and religious leaders or teachers? My high school journalism teacher, Elizabeth Spaulding, is retiring this year after achieving more than your 25 important people. She taught her students how to make their own beliefs, visions, ideas and tastes, and not just accept the status quo. Now that's truly having an influence on others. A. SPIRO SKENTZOS North Hollywood, California...
...Asia. The real, original tragedy labeled Bosnia is the bumbling dismemberment of formerly confederated Yugoslavia. A worldly wise Swiss friend of mine, who has lived in both the Balkans and the Middle East, made an interesting comparison: In Lebanon an imperfect but very livable and prosperous Swiss-type status quo prevailed for years, providing Christians, Muslims, Druzes and others breathing space and give-and-take ethnoreligious integrity. But recently that harmony has ceased to exist. Yugoslavia too had gone a long way toward evolving into the Switzerland of the Balkans, until Germany, the Vatican and a naive U.S. decided...
...instead of challenging undergraduates with candid accounts of America, Harvard treats its students to more sophisticated variants of the pleasing fables they learned in high school and absorb from popular culture and the media. When they graduate, these students are unprepared to promote serious change or defy the status quo because they are not even aware of serious American dilemmas. Thus, each year, Harvard produces a bumper crop of graduates ready to climb the ranks on Wall Street or in Washington, but blind to the glaring gaps between American ideals and American reality. These graduates are committed to preserving...