Word: truisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more attention to students, the quality of the academic experience at Harvard will soar,” wrote then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 in a 2002 memo to University President Lawrence H. Summers.It’s a truism that Harvard’s advising—if you can call it that—is in shambles. At long last, Harvard appears to be paying some attention. But the appointment of a dean of advising this spring is a quick fix, a cosmetic solution to a systemic problem. It allows the College...
...clanking with menace, swiveling right and left with uncertainty, is halted in its tracks because the people got in its way, and because it got in theirs ... In a showdown between the rulers and the ruled, the rulers would have their way. After all, it was a well-established truism of the 20th century that a Communist regime is a military regime in disguise. The disguise came off in Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968, in Poland in 1981-and in China last week...
That the IOP offers opportunities to undergraduates unparalleled anywhere in the world has become almost a cliché—and make no mistake, it is certainly a truism: that’s what drew us to the IOP in the first place. But the unfortunate reality is that a small minority of students gets the lion’s share of the benefits. Far too often the IOP becomes less a source of empowerment for students passionate about social change, and more an elitist fraternity for political junkies—a reality that profanes the Kennedy name...
...Power,” with a capital ‘P,’ “shall be invested in a President of the United States of America.” Depending on whom you ask, this phrase is either the justification for fairly extensive powers, or a truism meant only to open the second article, no more, no less. All that is left, then, that could justify the President’s action is his constitutional designation as Commander-in-Chief, except that this designation applies only to the nation’s military, and its invocation implies...
...United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (with the obligatory acronym “WSIS”) ended. Nothing groundbreaking happened, but that’s simply to utter a truism of UN functions. The summit did, however, put on display yet more signs of animosity towards the U.S. In case you haven’t noticed, America’s standing in the world isn’t what it once was. Only two years ago the European Union was all-aboard in allowing the U.S. to continue “governing the Internet...