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...value people enough to think it’s worth educating them. We think that being educated in the arts and sciences is different from being trained to use a machine. While we may seek to substitute technology for repetitive manual labor, we don’t try to supplant the creative minds of an educational community with mechanical replacements...
...After a young highway hustler fulfills the obligatory role as an intoxicatingly unruly and unreliable friend, Howie finds comfort in the company of Big John, a heartily patriotic pederast. While the film occasionally veers into heavy-handed obviousness—could Howie be looking for a father figure to supplant his own crooked contractor dad?—and the ending is disappointingly inane, it resists the usual topical temptation for sensationalism. L.I.E. also manages to avoid the standard genre trick of trotting out every bland hypocrisy behind the picket fence...
...more narrative approach for this guide. Gusmorino’s idea for an interactive website where first-years can post questions to upperclass students and tutors sounds wonderful, assuming students take advantage of the resource. Although a simple guide could never replace (and should not be allowed to supplant) a strong advising program, the more detailed information that students can achieve through the guide, the more useful the actual advising process will...
...most well-worn roles in the history of theater and film. He fumbles initially, but by the time his second monologue comes around he's moved into his role with enough assurance to tell as good a story as you'll find in any pub around. Will these stories supplant the movies and reassert the centrality of theater to the cultural life of nations across the globe? Probably not. But there's something satisfying about hearing them, something that no amount of cinematic smoke and lights can begin to touch. Some might say this is how theater got started...
season at No. 4, had slowly climbed to No. 2 and will in all likelihood supplant Harvard at the top spot when the next polls are released...