Word: instead
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...Instead, they say that the press tends to focus on the spectacle of law breaking or on isolated incidents of rowdy behavior...
...policy that restricts students to a tiny number of watered-down courses is antithetical to the University's standard of excellence. The lack of choice can force students to take easier Core courses instead of more advanced ones in the same field. We recall the words of President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, the founder of the Core curriculum. He believed that "Harvard students should graduate knowing a little bit of everything and something well." Limiting the scope of the Core curriculum is clearly not fulfilling his vision...
Exposure to a named academic expert is atypical in the anonymous world of online schooling, however. Instead, users benefit from what cyber-instructor Margie Davis calls the "faceless intimacy of the Internet." Some of Davis' online writing courses, offered through America Online and her own website, writingtoheal.com require students to tackle tough subjects in reflective personal essays. The six-week offerings have weighty names like Writing for Caregivers and Writing About Cancer. Says Davis: "My students don't know me personally. They feel very safe. They have an audience that isn't threatening or competitive...
...Vidal compares himself with Mark Twain and Henry James, other writers who looked askance at American imperial expansion. He would have preferred to play a role in turning back this progress but instead became its disapproving chronicler. Regrets, he has a few, but he also takes comfort in the role that fate assigned him: "Writers have to tell the truth as they see it, and politicians must never give the game away." In his writing, the game goes on. -With reporting by Curtis Ellis/New York
...real damage from the Lee case isn't the leaks from porous national labs or the mystery of secrets that got away. Instead, the case makes it harder to believe that in America at least, the government will always ensure that the punishment fits the crime. After last week, it's almost reasonable to ask whether federal agents cut corners on all their cases or just the ones involving Chinese Americans and national security. "Most federal cases are well founded and ethically prosecuted," says John Barrett, a former U.S. prosecutor who teaches law at St. John's University...