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...attempt to elucidate the purpose of Fenno in the Law School community, the publisher of the Record, Robert H. Friedman, explained, "Fennos have conferred a piercing critique of HLS and have balanced their words upon the narrow line that separates candid commentary from mean-spiritedness." In such a role, Fenno serves as the mouth-piece for the law school student body on issues that might otherwise go undiscussed...
...think that Harvard has already been incredibly accommodating and is providing all the aides that I might want or need, and since Lit. and Arts B encompasses art and architecture classes too, I don't find the range of courses too narrow," says Fong...
...else there would be an English/Japanese binary. To use a more extreme example, anytime there is a story about blind people it should be written in braille, to avoid the braille/English binary, etc. The implications of this logic are grave indeed: language should only be utilized in a very narrow, self-descriptive sense. Ebonics should only be used in describing people and subjects that are particular to Ebonics. It seems to me that this limited, minimalist view of language leads to more "opposition" than using language to describe other languages, as Ms. Barenbaum fears, because it keeps language bounded...
...about jelly beans was taken from a diversity seminar. Hence, Leo surmises, Texaco's image had been unfairly tarnished by a sensationalist media. He adds, "it's hard to shed tears for Texaco," but then proceeds to drum up more pity for the corporation, excusing another racist remark as "narrow-minded but minor." His point is that "Texaco was forced to settle the case quickly for a large sum, $176 million, not on the legal merits but because of the worldwide furor of the bad transcript and the Times's awful screw...
...many specialized areas of interest, of course, individual home pages can be a great resource because they can focus on a narrow subject. Pages devoted to specific rock groups or authors often have a core constituency of devoted Web surfers who visit on a regular basis...