Word: rethink
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...however, Ganz decided it was time for another pause to rethink his priorities. He had become disenchanted with the cynicism of politics...
...most Kennedy did, despite some private doubts in his last months, was to undermine Diem's crooked Saigon regime--not exactly a profile in courage, especially after all Kennedy had tolerated from Diem and his cronies. At no point did Kennedy, after three years of steadily increasing violence, fundamentally rethink the rationale and feasibility of the American entanglement in Vietnam. Much to his credit, Kennedy was leery of committing combat troops; but he died with almost 17,000 Americans in Vietnam (a terrific increase from 800 in 1960), and almost 70 American deaths there. As Halberstam writes, "[Kennedy] had markedly...
...study has had a positive effect on the Emma Willard School, says Marjorie G. Whiteman, an administrator there. "It made us rethink a great many things," she says, including dormitory assignments and teaching methods...
...talk is cheap. Desperate times call for desperate solutions. Harvard needs to drastically rethink its fiscal policies, to reconceptualize solvency in a heartless age of global capitalism. With that in mind, we offer eight ideas for Harvard to raise money...
Light's suggestions are worthwhile and eminently practical. Some professors, especially those teaching foreign language courses, already incorporate the methods that Light suggests. Others need to restructure their courses so that they engage undergraduates more. Advisers may need to rethink their tried-and-true counsel of the past. And students need to challenge themselves to become better writers and more active participants in their courses...