Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mistake. Students returning from leave must notify Harvard in advance to get housing, and some of them miss the deadline. They find themselves in off-campus housing by default. Julia *** '91 had a similar problem. She lives at home in Medford largely because her father' checked off the wrong box on her Harvard application. "When he deals with forms he makes stupid mistakes," she says. But she adds, "I probably would have stayed home anyway...
...Israeli occupation of the Gaza strip is "wrong and stupid," an expert on the relationship of Jews to Israel said in a speech at the Harvard Hillel last night...
...always thought, is an angel," says Andrew Greeley, gadfly Roman Catholic priest and best-selling novelist. "Probably the angel stories found in all of the world's religions are traces of the work in our world of Superman and his relatives. Who is to say I'm wrong?" Proponents of the angel theory believe it is no accident that when Superman is in full flight, his flared collar and flowing cape resemble wings...
...movement criticized Harvard's policy of continued investment in companies doing business in South Africa. "It's particularly shameful for Harvard to invest in [Sullivan's] name for so many years, and then when he has the courage to change his views, [for Harvard] to say that he is wrong," said Dorothee E. Benz '87, executive director of Alumni Against Apartheid...
...hypothesis. The entire first third of The Presence of the Past, and much of the rest of the work, is an idiosyncratic intellectual history of science, from which Sheldrake picks or reinterprets as he wishes. There are times when he misrepresents the facts, and times when he gets them wrong. For example, his statement that memory is not at all localizable in the brain--evidence to Sheldrake that it's not in there at all--is out-of-date. He overemphasizes the role of acquired characteristics in Darwin's theory of natural selection--saying "it could just as easily...