Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents had made him. Perhaps he was having trouble adapting to being so far from home. That year the co-instructor for the course happened to be a Greek engineer. When he heard the discussion he said something that no American would ever have dreamed of saying. "I think," he said, "that he is just very stupid...
...unwillingness to give students C's. But this plan failed because intelligence is evident only in comparative terms, and it is painfully obvious that, judged by the standard of my peers, the Eastern European professors must be looking at my test papers and saying to themselves "I think that he is just very stupid...
...form of dog-eat-dog capitalism (including the only health care system in the world based entirely on private profit), and yet their unwillingness to label anyone as intrinsically less worthy and their commitment to "being nice" indicate a sense of compassion. Some might see a contradiction, but I think there's a logic behind it. Merciless selection seems less objectionable if we insist that no one is intrinsically unfit. The losers are victims of circumstance, who, in principle at least, can be helped to succeed...
...think there will be a greater problem than recent years, and there will be an increase of fatalities if we are not careful, but we will never go back to the problems of a decade ago," Winsten said...
...would like to clarify my statement that there are two ways of going about being on the council: either you can tear everything up or you can work within the system. This does not mean that you cannot push for policy change within a system that currently exists. I think this is what we have done. Successful examples include UHS reforms and Universal Keycard Access. Although unsuccessful, the council also fought hard to preserve Science Core exemptions for students with AP scores and to oppose the cut in blocking group sizes...