Word: transformative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...open letter protests randomization on the grounds that it has resulted in a break down of House community. "It was communities of shared backgrounds and interests that enabled the Houses to transform themselves from ordinary dormitories to house--and that made the students who lived in them truly feel like a family," the letter said. The authors were especially concerned with how randomization has affected the quality of life for minority students. These students, they argue, now more than ever, lack a nurturing support system in what is for many a particularly alienating Harvard experience...
...welcomed. Whether you came to a house because your older sister once lived there, because it had great pianos, or because it had thriving support networks, the ability to choose yielded great rewards. It was precisely these communities of shared backgrounds and interests that enabled the houses to transform themselves from ordinary dormitories to homes--and that made the students who lived in them truly feel like a family...
...overcome Hitler, all while living in the inhuman conditions of Stalinism? No single approach--and there have been many--can explain Gorbachev. Perhaps the holy fools with their metaphysical scenario were right when they whispered that he was marked and that seven years were given to him to transform Russia in the name of her as yet invisible but inevitable salvation and renaissance...
...regime's demise (they were absolutely right). The radicals were happy because in their opinion he was an obstacle to the republics' independence and too cautious in enacting economic reforms. (They too were correct.) This man with the stain on his forehead attempted simultaneously to contain and transform the country, to destroy and reconstruct, right on the spot. One can be Hercules and clean the Augean stable. One can be Atlas and hold up the heavenly vault. But no one has ever succeeded in combining the two roles. Surgery was demanded of Gorbachev, but angry shouts broke out whenever...
...revolution led by Mandela to transform a model of racial division and oppression into an open democracy, he demonstrated that he didn't flinch from taking up arms, but his real qualities came to the fore after his time as an activist--during his 27 years in prison and in the eight years since his release, when he had to negotiate the challenge of turning a myth into...