Word: rather
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vogel described the meeting as a significant step in improving Sino-American relations, rather than a harbinger of progress for intellectual freedom in China, since the Chinese have far more academic autonomy than Americans realize...
Goyle added, "Rather than refuse to challenge the world he saw, he took what he learned at Harvard Law School and moved society towards his vision of social justice...
...subscribe to a very passive and uncontroversial mode of political correctness, glossing over rather than engaging and debating different opinions...
...understands the difficulty of this request. Individual tolerance and open-mindedness just won't be enough to combat homophobia; rather, straight students must make the "empathetic leap," in order to care about rights denied but deserved by others...
...Within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts is the eclectic and wildly idiosyncratic Gardner museum, the private collection of Boston's late madcap socialite, Isabella Stuart Gardner. Thanks to lax conservation regulations and import laws, Gardner was able to amass a rather impressive, if jumbled, collection of paintings, decorative arts, and artifacts from around the world. Only here can one find opulent Byzantine windows (taken from actual Venetian palazzos), Boticelli paintings, and second century Roman bathhouse mosaics all melded into a unified whole. Gardner stipulated in her will that the collection remain exactly as it was originally curated...