I like the way Judaism flags up a day to take stock of our actions, moral or otherwise, admitting responsibility for our faults and failings and promising to be better people.
Google does something bad (accidentally or otherwise), admits to its mistake, then faces an insignificant punishment.
When was the last time a reporter took the time to stipulate to their precise expertise, or otherwise admit they don't know enough about a topic to discuss it (Ana Marie's own admission in this post is pretty unique in this regard. Must be a blogger thing).
Students will be prohibited from on-campus activities "relating to rushing, pledging, initiating or otherwise admitting to or maintaining membership by any student of the College in any fraternity, sorority or other social club, society or organization (however denominated)," the email said.
Set against that is an analysis that is hard to deny: if Prop 209 were overturned, more Asian-American applicants would be denied places at universities that would otherwise have admitted them.
Begun at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, this program takes patients who would otherwise be admitted to a hospital for conditions like urinary and skin infections, pneumonia and heart failure, and instead sets up hospital-type services in the patient's home.
Shortly afterward, the man, a 38-year-old Dutchman who has not been otherwise identified, admitted that he had aimed the car at the royal family, Dutch officials said.
An organization is said to "discriminate invidiously if it arbitrarily excludes from membership" on the basis of such factors "persons who would otherwise be admitted to membership," it says.
When a college employs affirmative action, it typically admits some students who would not otherwise be admitted based on their academic credentials because their presence would add diversity to the institution and to the student body.
Their target group is patients who would otherwise be admitted to in-patient wards [ 1, 2].
