Word: reactional
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...griped that “Dean Pilbeam’s letter is 70-80 percent bullshit.” What tact. It’s not surprising that students are mourning the end of the party grant days (free-flowing booze is a good time indeed) but the vitriol reaction toward Pilbeam’s announcement is bizarre. The University is a multibillion-dollar corporation subject to the rules and regulations of the United States, Massachusetts, and Cambridge, all of which enforce the legal drinking age of 21. Through the party grant, the College knowingly funds such illegal activity, albeit...
...police operation ostensibly came in response to ETA's decision to break a self-imposed cease-fire last June 6. But it can also be seen as part of the reaction of the government of Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to criticism that is soft on Basque and Catalonian nationalism. That criticism has stung the otherwise popular Zapatero in the walk-up to parliamentary elections in March 2008. Patxi Zabaleta, a former Batasuna member and now leader of Aralar, a Basque nationalist party, castigated the government over the arrests. "These people were meeting to talk, without arms...
...parenting is sparse but intriguing. Eleanor Maccoby of Stanford University has found that fathers are less likely than mothers to modify their language when speaking to their children, thus challenging their kids to expand vocabulary and cognitive skills. Fathers also tend to enforce rules more strictly and systematically in reaction to children's wrongdoing, according to educational psychologist Carol Gilligan. "Having a father isn't magic," says Armin Brott, author of seven books about fatherhood, "but it really does make a difference for the kids...
Katherine Y. Tan ’10 called the decision “imprudent” and “based on the gut reaction of faculty who are out of touch...
...though Li was handling a number of politically sensitive cases, there was nothing unusual in his case load, nothing directly connected to the Party Congress. So when a dozen or so men surrounded him, pulled a bag over his head and dragged him into a car, Li's reaction was more surprise than anything else. That would soon change. The men took Li to a house in the suburbs, stripped him to his underpants and beat him and poked him with an electric cattle prod...