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...group a decision-making role. The overseers at least have a place in the Harvard hierarchy and a forgotten charge to oversee the administration. Perhaps now that they are faced with a letter which must bring the administration's manipulative practices close to home, the overseers will examine their function here and take a more active role in University affairs...
...Burger King, Dunkin' Donuts, Mister Donut, Pizza Hut, Burger Chef. The architecture that resulted was a sort of Sunbelt peasant modernism, simple constructivist cartoons in steel and glass, designed to catch the attention at highway speeds. Usually, as Langdon says, it was a case of "form faking function." Cosmetic A-frames were slapped onto plain boxes; McDonald's golden arches never supported anything. The "modernism" of the fast-food stands was superficial set design, not unlike today's putatively "postmodern" shopping- mall facades...
Chemically creating a drug which stops a specific viral function, a method called rational drug design, is not the only way researchers go about looking for a chemical cure for AIDS. Haseltine's lab is also helping to design a drug screening program...
...understands and evaluates the place of gays and lesbians in a Jewish religious context is a function of the relative weight given to two biblical verses. The first is most commonly introduced into discussions of this nature is Leviticus 18:22, which forbids and denounces as an abomination sexual relations between two men. (Sex between women is not specifically forbidden in the Bible, but is prohibited by extension in subsequent Jewish law.) The second is Genesis 1:27, which reminds us that each human being, male and female, has been created in the Divine Image. From this, tradition derives that...
Ideally, the American populace ought to be informed, interested, and yet unemotional about its political issues. For a democracy to function, its citizens must care enough to participate but must be willing to defer to the wisdom of the majority. Of course, we do not live in an ideal world, and whatever cause holds our attention must necessarily hold our emotional interest as well. What we must guard against, then, is letting our emotions rather than our intellect guide...