"This one is for Salman Rushdie!" Literature as an occasion for hate, a hate crime as an occasion for the academic to exercise his power as a "real" man: like the best of Falls and Bockley's "2666," this scene shows, rather than tells, what Bolaño, that gawky, sensitive son of machismo's brutalities and bigotry, saw everywhere force winning out over dialogue, no matter how carefully rendered.
It didn't mention either his descriptions of limits on academic expression outside the classroom or his claim that change would only be brought about if Yale NUS faculty were willing to exercise academic freedom and advocacy.
The academic setting allowed him to exercise what he calls his "keen interest" in research.
Later, differences between those with and without academic activity and between those with and without private psychiatric practice were analyzed only in the psychiatrists' sample (psychiatry registrars are not legally allowed to exercise academic or private practice), using Student t tests.
Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, said it was a "pointless academic exercise" to "pretend" that the war didn't contribute to the chaos and bloodshed in Iraq today.
According to CPT Olivia Nunn of West Point's Public Affairs office, the cadets and faculty members, all from the academy's Systems Engineering Department, were visiting the studios of FOX News as an academic exercise "to watch how news productions are done from beginning to end".
"It was one of those deals which you think is just going to be an academic exercise but it got to the point where we started to think, this is really going to happen, this is just so exciting because it's so right for everyone.
Some skill development sessions can embedded into lectures and tutorials including how to identify and cite quality reference sources, in addition to exercises on academic writing conventions such as structuring arguments and paraphrasing.
Some are simply using carbon pricing as an academic exercise to anticipate future costs if more regulators impose actual taxes on carbon.
Sure, it's a fun academic exercise to look at human behavior through proposed mechanisms of evolution, but here's the rub: real human behavior is orders of magnitude more complicated than the observations of animal behavior that evolutionary theory is based on.
Eventually the novel will simply be an academic exercise, written by academics to be used in classrooms in order to test the ingenuity of students.
