Word: obvious
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...issues of "public speech" and "private harassment" are not clearly separable. Is the solution, then, to ignore the obvious gray area and allow all hateful speech? Of course not. Neither is it to ban all offensive speech. The solution is to appoint a group comprised of students, faculty and administrators to discuss borderline cases...
After a fifteen-minute break the Crimson took the floor for the match against Yale. It was obvious from the outset that the MIT match had taken its toll...
...best when compared with its alternatives. "Amber waves of grain" may be more peaceable than "bombs bursting in air," but America, the Beautiful lacks drama. My Country 'Tis of Thee was stolen, note for note, from the British national anthem, God Save the Queen. And God Bless America has obvious problems with the separation of church and state, but it has de facto status as the anthem of the Philadelphia Flyers, who won the Stanley Cup in 1974 after Kate Smith inspired them with the ode to the land that she loved. Still trotted out for big games courtesy...
LITERARY criticism is a serious business, and it is growing ever more popular in academia. But its drawbacks are obvious. With all of the technical readings, the jargon and the warring factions of the "traditional" anti-traditional critics, Albertism might have a chance to survive. Besides, the condominium complex in South Florida where it all began is a lot more appealing than New Haven, where most of the other literary critics settle...
Still, it could certainly do some things to help. Departments should tenure junior professors who like to teach and who are good at it. (That this obvious point still needs to be made is incredible...