Word: sentimentality
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...more likely to be found in verbal communications—a conclusion supported by the report. “I think in terms of colloquialisms, more so than seeping into writing, they are seeping into verbal communications,” she said. English professor Lawrence Buell echoed a similar sentiment, stating that he hasn’t noticed a presence of e-mail speak in his students’ formal writing. “This is the top of the mountain peak that you’re surveying as far as potential quality and smarts of the student group...
...temptation for some legislators is to assess these endowments as a way to help fund state programs,” he said. “Then there is a sentiment that these universities can afford that, but I don’t think that’s fair...
...instructors. That’s an indignity that Harvard usually reserves for accounting students. If you want to know what visceral discomfort looks like, watch a Harvard ROTC student shuffle across campus in his military uniform. Banished by the Faculty in 1969 amid a rising tide of anti-war sentiment on Harvard’s campus, ROTC has more recently been relegated to its pariah status because of the military’s mindless discrimination against homosexuals. Forget the active duty that follows graduation—for our peers in uniform, the years of glory-free self-sacrifice start...
...Harvard disagree with the sentiment. Even Harry R. Lewis ’68, former dean of the College and one of Harvard ROTC’s staunchest advocates, argued on this page last year that, “the ban on homosexuals in the military is unwise.” The dispute here is not over Faust’s message, but rather her timing. “If it’s going to be political, I think everyone would be happier having someone else speak,” one Marine midshipman told The Crimson earlier this week...
...dispute that the cause of the dramatic humanitarian decline has been the upsurge in violence in the wake of the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion. There is also little arguing with the fact that Washington's failure to match its military involvement with humanitarian intervention has helped deepen anti-American sentiment across Somalia...