Word: notion
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...notion that first-years don't need Faculty interaction is "a demeaning idea," Nathans says. "Faculty should not slough off younger students...
...jazz players, especially schooled ones, don't really get that. They're such individualists and free-lancers that they don't understand what all rock people understand: which is what it means to be in a band. That's what the Either/Orchestra had right from the very beginning, this notion that we're in this together to make music together. And that's how people hear music. They hear the sound of the ensemble. The first impression is "What does the music sound like?" not "What does the guy in the plaid pants sound like?" I think...
...says prestige is also a factor that encourages blacks who do concentrate in the sciences to go into medicine rather than pursue graduate degrees or other careers--Law's graduate statistics seem to confirm this notion...
...Israel against its Mideastern foes. "There's been a movement over the past decade to begin looking very seriously at the ways in which the Holocaust has been 'marketed' and used in support of contemporary political goals," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "As difficult as that notion may be for some people to engage, it's an important and reasonable topic for discussion. A ruling that excludes Irving from the realm of legitimate historical scholarship creates more space for serious discussion among academics who accept the basic truths of the Holocaust, but who're asking important questions about...
...academic Deborah Lipstadt over her 1994 book that slammed him as a Holocaust denier. Irving had sought to establish serious scholarly credentials for his claims that Hitler had been unaware of the Nazis' "Final Solution" until late in the war, and for his attempts to refute the notion that Jews had been systematically exterminated in the concentration camps, but the judge was unimpressed...