Word: worked
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Allow the universities' point that a bidding war would ensue if they did not set awards. If competition forced the big schools to work to entice students, smaller schools would go all out to get their students. Implicit in the colleges' argument is the assumption that education at all these schools is of equal value and hence should not be sold to the "highest bidder. Yet, in a competitive system, the same number of students would accept admission, and the rule of "need-based" aid should insure that the most money would go to the most needy students...
East Asian legal studies is a very specialized field, according to Jim V. Feinerman, an associate professor at the Georgetown Law Center who did graduate work at Yale with Alford. In particular, Feinerman said, many people are discouraged from specializing in the area by the number of years needed to achieve expertise...
What liberal advocates of diversity seem to ignore too often is the fact that for diversity to "work" at Harvard, individuals within minority groups must be willing to build strong communities amongst themselves before they can go out and share their varying ideas and customs with the rest of the community. And cultural activities alone are not always enough to build strong personal bonds between individuals in minority communities--too often we see members of the same race or religion shy away from social association with people of their own background for fear of being characterized as "segregationists...
Norman Bryson, a professor of art history at the University of Rochester, said he will officially join the department next fall as a replacement for former Professor of Fine Arts T.J. Clark. Clark, known for his ground-breaking work in applying social theory to art, departed for Berkeley in the spring...
Scholars said Bryson's work integrates the analytical methods of other fields in the humanities--such as semiotics, the science of sign and symbol...