Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...felt like I might as well have been told that a course can’t count unless it meets on a Monday and Wednesday after 4, and Thursday before 11. And even more than this randomness, these requirements didn’t make sense and may even be spurious: I know of Core courses that have capped enrollment (Justice, Science A-43, Literature and Arts B-11, should I go on?) and there must be Cores that are never going to be offered again (are all the 86 courses before Historical Study A-87 going to be offered...
...they lost in the semis to a Wallabies team ignited by the mercurial David Campese. In Johannesburg in '95, a food-poisoning outbreak wrecked their preparation for the final, which was won by the hosts in extra time. At Twickenham in '99, France lived up to their somewhat spurious reputation for summoning bursts of inspired attack to overwhelm a Blacks team that had been cruising in their semi-final...
...Skeptics, however, note that Libya's new profile is a product of the same thuggish authoritarian power structure that has ruled the country since 1969. And they suggest that the principles on which Libya is resolving problems sometimes amount to extortion. For example, the release of the Bulgarians - spurious though their convictions may have been - saw still undisclosed donor nations acting on behalf of the E.U. shell out $460 million in damages for the Libyan victims of HIV infection, and also landed Tripoli diplomatic and commercial rewards that include the construction of a nuclear power plant. Even worse, French daily...
...Gaddafi, in addition to deflecting blame for the epidemic, he appears to have benefited from a spurious accusation by winning some medical treatment and financial aid for the victims families. (The amount of money going to families is still unknown and both Bulgaria and the E.U. refuse to call it "compensation" since that implies guilt.) "We should never underestimate Libya," says the Bulgarian journalist Melkov. "Gaddafi has been able to make the West demonstrate compassion for the victims of Benghazi, while at the same time trading his aces in the best possible way on the international stage. He plays...
There are some good, and some spurious, reasons to think that Harvard really doesn’t give a whit about its undergraduates. For my money, though, the most convincing example is the continuation of an outdated, expensive, and time-consuming system of thesis distribution that places an unfair burden on students, and requires them to pay money in order to do more work...