Word: exist
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...concerned that the staff position tries too hard to avoid seeming oversolicitous to a "special interest group." It has minimized the issue of homophobia in its attempt to enforce equal treatment under the law. But in doing so it has ignored the fact that The Law only exists in the manner that it is interpreted. Laws and criminals do not exist in and of themselves; they are defined by a society with certain values and certain power structures...
...university in which going to class is truly meaningful could theoretically exist in practice. It could even be called Harvard. With a hell of a lot of change...
Free discussion cannot exist when one side does not listen to the other. In their infinite wisdom, Harvard's liberal leaders have decided on the answers. They do not need to listen, because no one could possibly teach them anything...
...House in a row. The Government is spending half a billion dollars a year to test drugs in Government research in local hospitals around the country, but those hospitals don't have enough patients enrolled in the drug trials because the Government doesn't tell anybody that these trials exist...
...second possible solution is the tutorial program, a perfect channel for toppling personal barriers between students and faculty. Unfortunately, in some fields (physics is one), an individual tutorial program doesn't even exist. In other concentrations, tutorials are not one-on-one or even two-on-one, but 10 to 20 students per group; hardly a likely venue for personal contact with the tutor. In many more cases, the tutors themselves are not professors at all, but "post-docs" and even graduate students...