Word: sentimentals
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...They had this incredible attitude of ‘The student knows best what the student needs,’ and ‘It is our job to do what we can for optimal accommodations,’” Crockett said, adding that this sentiment has largely vanished since her first interactions with them...
...recent days, a slight breeze of sentiment seems to be helping Obama and hurting Clinton. That could shift three times between now and Jan. 3. But neither of them nor any of the other Democrats have anything to be embarrassed about if they lose. It has been a good, substantive, almost civil campaign...
...number of Jewish students at Harvard—then 21 percent of the student body. In a letter published in the New York Times, Lowell—for whom the House is named—maintained that it would benefit the University and help reduce anti-Semitic sentiment. When outright quotas raised objections, he changed the admissions criteria to include photographs of applicants as well as “an estimate of personal character.” Over the course of his tenure, the number of Jewish students declined to 10 percent...
...Harvard mirrors a problem endemic to the nation: the consigning of civic duties to a self-contained class of “political people.” This flies in the face of the very notion of democratic society: that we are all political people. Political mobility is a sentiment which needs to boil through everyone who comes to Harvard College, a trade school of citizenship...
...Some SWF officials say they are adjusting their investment plans to match a world where protectionist sentiment is rising. Singapore's Temasek has already said it is becoming more cautious. "In every country, whether it is in Asia or Europe, there is an increasing tide of nationalism," Temasek chairman Suppiah Dhanabalan recently told Singapore's Straits Times newspaper. "We've got to take various factors into account, such as whether the company or the activity is iconic for that country, whether it will arouse all kinds of emotional sentiment...