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...eyes of Pusey’s predecessor, James B. Conant ’14, pleading the Fifth was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and many universities had dismissed faculty members who remained silent under questioning...
...dispensing with the provocation and adopting a conciliatory tone. Though he still emphasized Taiwan's "national identity" in his speech, he dropped a controversial plan to write a new constitution that was to be endorsed by a referendum-a step Washington feared could be perceived by Beijing as tantamount to a declaration of independence, and which could push the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to the brink of war. Asked by a TIME reporter what he thought of Chen's address, Paal smiled and said: "I am happy with what I heard today...
...million Americans living in poverty are simply not driven or innovative enough to improve their plight. To these debaters, the very poor are most likely happy to lazily wait around for the government’s handouts—which, according to many of my misinformed opponents, are tantamount to stipends that allow for an incredibly comfortable life...
...acting director of undergraduate studies and served in that position for five years in the mid-1990s—calls “reverse-ethnocentricity—studying the world from where you stand.” In Western terms, NELC’s structure is tantamount to putting what we know now as Romance Languages, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, History and Literature, Germanic Languages and History of Art and Architecture all into one department. No university in the West would dream of doing this, yet for the “Near East” (an antiquated term in itself...
...highlight just what’s missing from the daily grind of undergraduate dining: joy. These people are unabashedly, deliriously, downright nerdily in love with food and wine. Just listen to Steve Edmunds talk about grapes. For this man, a visit to the vineyard is apparently tantamount to spiritual pilgrimage...