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...students have any complaint, it is that "at the GSD one learns architecture, and not how to be an architect," says Brad Walker (MAR '85). "Many employers want an employee who knows how to function in their offices. [The GSD] is not a vocational education...
...population policy professor amended the statement, saying, "The future will be like the present in many aspects of the physical city, but the function of the city--the texture of life--will continue to change in fundamental ways...
William N. Lipscomb Jr., Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, discussed the structure and function of enzymes with a crowd of about 60 at the symposium "Chemistry and Physics of Biological Processes...
...Mantovani, New Age music is easily disparaged. Yet music that relaxes need not be devoid of content. Bach composed the Goldberg Variations to ease the slumbers of an insomniac, and his contemporary, Telemann, wrote reams of Tafelmusik, music intended as background to dining. Quality is not necessarily restricted by function...
...person's right to vote on the grounds of illiteracy. In a 1971 letter to the Senate after his confirmation hearings, Rehnquist stated categorically that he had not "personally engaged in challenging the credentials of any voter." This time around he was more circumspect. First he claimed that his function on Election Day was to provide legal advice to Republicans assigned the task of challenging voters' credentials. Then, peppering his testimony with "I don't recall"s, he said he did not believe he had ever challenged any voter...