Word: referred
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...Harvard Independent (October 3 1996). It is not surprising that both commentaries completely missed the point of our project since neither of the authors asked for a copy of the our report. One would think that at our educational level, we would be academically conscientious enough to refer to primary sources rather than rely on other people's assessments of them...
...year discussions on diversity, setting up a panel or discussion groups about how women leaders and women in general are perceived by their peers on campus, investigating Harvard's record of giving tenure to women, and re-evaluating Lewis' decision to retain the non-gender-neutral term "freshmen" to refer to first-year students...
Although the Pope did not specifically refer to Darwin or evolutionary biology, his words are an active step towards promoting the coexistence of scientific evidence and religious faith...
...After many hours of talking with Hungarian friends about their country's recent history, I began to understand just how complicated--and at times heartbreaking--was their relation to the past, including the heroic days of October 1956. In the years preceding and immediately following "the Change" (as Hungarians refer to 1989), October 1956 functioned as a single unifying symbol to all those who opposed the communist regime. By 1993, however, it was clear that the ideals associated with 1956--freedom of expression, desire for self-government, liberalization of politics and the economy--meant very different things to different people...
...what the article I read in the Times should reinforce is that, although the rhetoric of the Holocaust may be among its only tangible legacies for those of us who are young, these words have real meanings--they refer to one of the most monstrous events ever to occur in the annals of man. I am well acquainted with it: Many members of my family were among its victims. Any tragedy is not a "Holocaust" or a "genocide," nor is every right-winger a "Nazi" or a "Fascist." Using these terms where they are not applicable trivializes the ideas they...