Word: sparking
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...study abroad. I remember an Arabic course taught by Harvard’s William Granara as one of the best I ever took, but surely Adomanis recognizes the incomparable advantage of studying modern languages in their natural context. Immersed students not only acquire vocabulary and syntax more rapidly, they spark human curiosity, exchange, and understanding with people previously ignored, and that is precisely the purpose of education. Study abroad can be improved by more integration with host schools, home-stays, and increased funding. Such expansion and improvement, not the degradation of international education, is precisely what American education and competitiveness...
...trash bins and tires afire in an affluent neighborhood. "This doesn't solve the [security] problem, but it mobilizes people," said Jostan Carvajal, a doctor who held rocks in his hand while other protesters threw objects toward the National Guard. "I think this will be a little spark that will restart the opposition movement...
...easy to understand why the idea of an amnesty would spark such a negative reaction. The country tried one with the 1986 law. Nearly 3 million people took advantage of it, and the amnesty was followed by an explosion in illegal immigration. But not to offer some process by which illegal immigrants gain legitimacy is to keep them permanently underground. "To me, it goes to the core of your view and recognition of human dignity for everybody," says Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, another of the Judiciary Committee Republicans who voted for legalization. But to do it is to reward lawbreaking...
...editors: Your article regarding Harvard Right to Life’s poster campaign (“Pro-Life Posters Spark Debate,” news, Mar. 6) overlooked the key issue of the safety and well-being of Harvard students who have had abortions. There are virtually no other groups on campus besides Right to Life that put up advertisements solely directed at challenging and changing students’ opinions. It is very disturbing that the one issue that is promoted independently of advertised events on posters around campus is an issue that may be very personal and painful...
...editors: Re: “Pro-Life Posters Spark Debate,” news, Mar. 6 The irrational trashing of “Elena posters” by students demonstrates once again the wisdom of Harvard Right to Life’s developing-baby poster campaigns. Those who favor legalized abortion often try to distract the abortion debate by agnostically temporizing about the status of the fetus and instead focusing solely on the social and economic situation of the mother. With this distraction in place, most people can tune out the abortion debate most of the time. This supposedly agnostic...