Word: sheerness
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...people in each faith encounter the challenges of science, globalization, democracy, secularism, and the sheer fact and power of the religious “other?” These are the world’s questions, not just ours. If our curriculum hopes to create global citizens, it cannot avoid them...
...colleague of Obama—in The New Republic’s Open University blog, extensively cites Obama’s credentials as a former University of Chicago Law School professor and a former president of the Harvard Law Review. He cites Obama’s personable character and sheer brilliance as the rallying causes behind McWhorter so-called “buzz.” McWhorter thinks Obama was elected because of his race and that this is bad. Sunstein thinks Obama was not elected because of his race and that this is good. The latter seems a little...
Other activists are worried that the sheer ubiquity of pink-ribbon campaigns creates an illusion that all is well in the world of breast-cancer research and treatment. "When companies make breast cancer so pink and pretty and upbeat, too many people think we're close to getting answers and that breast cancer isn't the problem it once was," says Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition. "That's not the right message. We may have raised awareness, but incidence rates are higher than they were 30 years ago. We don't know how to prevent...
...lunch.” The video for said single is the result of a similarly straightforward process, with the added philosophy of “why not?”—but these hypotheticals become so over the top that the video becomes entertaining through sheer effort. Why not stick the band on a float, followed by a bunch of people in skeleton makeup, and have them march down a post-apocalyptic road? Why not put a damn blimp above it with a sign that reads “The Black Parade,” just in case...
...Center can possibly solve. Or maybe, as 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich seemed to suggest at the center’s grand opening, it is a sort of reparation that Harvard has paid to compensate for its historical exclusion of women. But on reflection the sheer inanity of that justification seems obvious. In reality, the Women’s Center, born of Larry Summers’ guilt-trip, really doesn’t seem to have a practical purpose. For all the theoretical grandstanding that has accompanied its inception, its leaders have found little real initiatives...