Word: attempting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...must all my first-year women friends be freshmen? They aren't asking for sex changes in addition to an education. The use of the word freshman harkens back to the days when women were not allowed to enroll at Harvard. Your endorsement of the term is an attempt to keep us in those middle ages, when women students were often not permitted in the classrooms and were mostly ignored by the male faculty. Are women not worthy to be students at Harvard? Evidence points in the opposite direction. Then why do you want to use a word that denies...
Overall, this handbook looks more like an afterthought than a serious attempt to deal with race at Harvard. Once again, the administration has attempted to address an issue of vital importance to students without consulting them. Many students are deeply committed to race relations as evidenced by the recently founded publication Diversity and Distinction. Until this handbook is composed with significant student input, we will not have a good sense of current race relations at the College. It does not engage issues such as the racial hostility or prejudice that many students of color feel, or the tension that...
...fact, the current antidivorce rhetoric slanders millions of perfectly wonderful, high-functioning young people, my own children and most of their friends included. Studies that attempt to distinguish between the effects of divorce and those of the income decline so often experienced by divorced mothers have found no lasting psychological damage attributable to divorce per se. Check out a typical college dorm, and you'll find people enthusiastically achieving and forming attachments until late into the night. Ask about family, and you'll hear about Mom and Dad...and Stepmom and Stepdad...
...BLAME FOR THE royal split on Prince Charles [World, March 11]. He was dealing with a woman who exhibited such extremes of emotional abuse as throwing herself down the stairs in an attempt to prevent Charles from going hunting. This behavior is symptomatic of a person who, apart from being emotionally unstable, is unreasonably demanding of her spouse. Imagine if Charles had thrown himself down the stairs in an attempt to stop Diana from going to her gym. What sexist double standards we live by! CHRIS DWYER Bondi, Australia...
...videotaped recording of every baton blow. However, says TIME's Sylvester Monroe, that is where the similarity ends: "It is not Rodney King in terms of the reaction of police officials. Riverside Police have already publicly expressed their embarrassment and immediately suspended the police officers. There is no attempt to cover up, to make excuses for this at all. That is the major difference." The Riverside Sheriff's Department, the Los Angeles Police Department and by the FBI have begun investigations. But Monroe says those probes may not mean much unless they confront the central problem that allowed this beating...