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...cannot be denied that the pins do tend to appeal to people’s hearts rather than their minds, despite their actual symbolic meaning, but perhaps this is not all bad either. I am certain that most people (even those who favor abortion) would strongly object to the idea of a poor little dog being shredded by a chainsaw. But there are far too many people who feel no qualm about a human fetus being impaled by a sharp hook. I think that these insensitive people must be reminded that, although a fetus may look ugly, a fetus will...
Those who tell everyone every last detail of their weekend hook-up are trying to impress, to seem cool, to dominate the spotlight. For this reason, their love stories tend to get more elaborate with repetition. What starts out as a simple misunderstanding over a kiss becomes fodder suitable for Jerry Springer, with jealous roommates lurking behind corners and backstabbing friends trying to foil the plot...
...spend a fair amount of extracurricular time working alumni events and working with the Alumni Association in particular, and I get to spend time with some of the older alums, some of the very much whiter alums and wealthier alums. And because of what I look like they tend to speak freely around me because they don’t know really what I do or what I think or that I’ve been seen at Living Wage rallies and elsewhere. And so they talk to me in the bathroom of the Faculty Club between meetings...
Others have suggested that small classes, which tend to have higher grades, are an important cause of grade inflation. But higher grades themselves do not necessarily indicate that grade inflation is worse in smaller classes than in large ones. While grade inflation certainly influences grades, the more intimate atmosphere and increased faculty-student interaction in smaller classes increases the quality of work that students produce. Students in small classes, which tend to be more advanced, are often more qualified and enthusiastic about the subject. Yet, because grades have been compressed, their marks still do not clearly reflect their performance...
Though violence has tapered off, the conflict has taken on other forms. Mitrovica's largest Serbian Orthodox cemetery, like the church, is located on the Albanian side of town. Every few months, Serbs who want to tend the graves of their loved ones travel in a KFOR armored convoy to the site. After they leave, Father Nojic says, the recently tended graves are defaced by Albanian vandals. As a result, some parishioners have taken to burying their dead in their backyards. The largest ethnic Albanian cemetery is also on the wrong side of town, and it gets even fewer visitors...