Word: instead
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...students received more than threats; the dean's letter of recommendation for a woman applying for professorships explained that her union activity made her a risky candidate. In the increasingly shrinking job market at universities, such a letter is likely to ruin any chance for her success in academia. Instead of a place of free intellectual exchange, Yale University was a place of tight political control...
Whether Harvard TFs decide to unionize should be the decision of Harvard TFs. By accepting the NLRB decision instead of lending support to those who are fighting it, the Harvard community has the opportunity to take the high road where Yale has failed. Harvard prides itself on being a model for other private universities in our educational excellence; we should set a good example in our labor decisions as well...
...World War II. And, most recently, President John F. Kennedy '40 was assassinated while in office. Of course, Reagan disrupted the trend by surviving his 1981 assassination attempt, only 69 days into office. The bullet lodged itself within a centimeter of his aorta, and only modern medicine saved him. (Instead, his theatrical grace and wit during the assassination incident caused his popularity to soar...
...Whomever Bush chooses to take over the empty seat, he or she is unlikely to be an Antonin Scalia or a Clarence Thomas or even a William Rehnquist. Instead, the chosen one will fit neatly into the Kennedy-O'Connor mold: Centrist, clear-headed consensus-builders who are more or less immune to politicization of issues. As Pepperdine University constitutional scholar Douglas Kmiec told the Associated Press, "They end up being the glue of the opinion," moderating the conservative camp and mollifying the moderate-to-liberal camp...
...America was waiting for a strong, commanding leader to ride out of this long televised civics lesson, they were disappointed. If they were instead hoping for a man made humble by limbo and wary by the poison of political warfare, they got one in George W. Bush...