Word: viewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contents. Julian Barnes, whose third novel, Flaubert's Parrot (1985), earned an army of readers outside his native Britain, has here gathered a collection of prose pieces, nominally fiction, that cohere chiefly by virtue of being bound together in one book. The affair kicks off with a termite's view of the adventures of Noah and his ark. (Noah, it turns out, was not a particularly nice fellow, and his epic voyage was less than heroic in its details.) Matters then proceed through a number of other diverting incidents, among them the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Arab...
WHEN discussing the housing lottery system, many see the debate as being between two competing goods: diversity and student choice in housing. In this view, the randomization advocates favor the good of diversity over student choice, and those against randomization favor student choice over diversity. This generalization, like the stereotypes of the houses, though, is a misleading oversimplification...
...view that the problem has not been a lack of knowledge of jobs or the lack of adequate access to contacts," Clark said. "I think we can and will do it through the placement office...
...past, some college officials have suggested experimentation with alcohol is an unavoidable "maturation rite," Johnson says. Adherents of this view cite surveys tracking college classes over a four-year period, which suggest that although students tend to drink excessively during their first years, consumption decreases by their senior years...
...view the actions against Mitzna as wholly insignificant to the cause of Palestinian rights given Mitzna's history," Dominguez said...