Word: rethink
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...find yourself stuck in some dingy hostel late in an Australian night miserably pounding out paragraphs about stultifying historical museums and bad restaurants, in a desperate attempt to meet deadline--stop. Sit back for a moment and rethink why you feel enslaved to a bunch of uptight Harvard kids trapped in a Cambridge office thousands of miles away, when Guatemala awaits; ask yourself again why you wanted to go to India or Ireland in the first place. Go for a beer, go to bed, go do anything rather than cutting and pasting your fun away, because you're supposed...
...dramatic. But in a state as diverse as California, any decrease in the admission of underrepresented students is both significant and dramatic. The drop in minority admissions across the entire system is disturbing, not to be shrugged off as liberal alarmist rhetoric. The University of California must rethink and retool its eligibility and admission policies to reflect the needs of an increasingly diverse state. We need to level the playing field and engage in a reassessment of our present definition of academic merit. EUGENE GARCIA, Professor and Dean Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, Calif...
...intent to challenge with my writings; and by challenging, I meant to improve, to jolt slumbering minds into wakefulness. Even if my contrarian opinions have been incorrect, I hope they have made you rethink received opinion and conventional wisdom, as J. S. Mill suggested they might. But I conjecture, with reserve, that at least some of my contrarian opinions have been correct. If so, I hope they have made you reject received opinion and conventional wisdom...
Last, how could I write you and not mention your most painful product, "repetitive strain injury?" Because of RSI, many people, including me, have to rethink their entire life plans. Now I know you did not bring this illness about, but you certainly have contributed to its recent rapid spread...
...thing's for sure: Harvard College is courting the long-forgotten girls next door. And its recent efforts, combined with Radcliffe's difficulty competing with Harvard for alumnae dollars, may have prompted Harvard and Radcliffe officials to rethink Radcliffe's relationship to the University as its role in the lives of undergraduate women becomes increasingly nominal...