Word: reaffirming
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...current Supreme Court is not likely to hand down a judgement allowing the partial-birth abortion procedure to be used indiscriminately. Even the Roe v. Wade ruling allowed individual states to make laws discouraging abortions in the third trimester. However, the Court should, and hopefully will, reaffirm the protection for cases in which a woman's health is endangered...
...anything, this moderate discomfort is crucial to learning. Education--both academic and personal--is not a process by which we comfortably reaffirm our preexisting beliefs. Rather, learning stems from discomfort, from exposure to people who are different from ourselves. It is a process by which we test our personal truths against an array of competing beliefs...
...while BGLTSA officers said yesterday that National Coming Out Day is designed to celebrate visibility, encourage openness about sexual orientation and to reaffirm the pride and strength of the gay community at Harvard, Davidson said the organization's poster choices are unrepresentative and counterproductive...
...happily reaffirm that although our so-called competitors in New Haven and rural New Jersey have submitted to early decision policies of admission, Harvard has resisted this trend and has stood by its early action procedure. And earlier this month, the admission office lofted themselves even higher on our scales of approval by permitting Harvard early action candidates to apply early action at other schools as well...
...observers worry that the changing priorities of research universities as a whole are jeopardizing the quality of the nation's higher education system. But that is not the way things have to be. The University has led the way before, most recently with President Rudenstine leading the charge to reaffirm diversity in higher education. But other times it has dropped the ball, reacting late to nationwide reforms in financial aid programs and failing to forge real interdisciplinary links (where have all the interfaculty initiatives gone?) and to adopt innovative programs like ethnic studies. I challenge Harvard to lead...