Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several overlapping segments slowly but surely become apparent. Starting from the same supermarket scene that launched Ronna's story, Simon, trading shifts with Ronna, goes on a joy ride to Las Vegas with friends to experience the high stakes world of sleazy strip clubs, car chases and guns. His abandon is remarkable, and Askew comfortably plays up Simon's amorality and detachment from responsibility with wide-eyed innocence...
...Macarena comes the newest fad line dance: the Booty Call. With simple choreography--just a few steps and shakes--the Booty Call has been capturing a huge following in the D.C. area among the geriatrics and Georgetown set alike. Even Vice President Al Gore '69 has vowed to abandon the Macarena in favor of the "Booty Call." Clubs in the area can't keep up with the demand for the butt-centric moves and it promises to make a dent nation-wide. So, before the trend passes Harvard by, take time to learn the dance craze that will soon storm...
...council's leadership is to succeed in fulfilling their campaign promise, they must abandon the notion that politics and student services are inherently at odds with each other. Seton is concerned that political issues take too much time to debate during full meetings. But how much is there to debate about lower telephone rates, fly-by lunches or improved UHS treatment? These types of students services are best achieved when committees and individuals work closely with the administrators and officials. They do not require hours of council-wide discussion...
...Silence," she says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power in 1996. Women, who made up 40% of doctors and 70% of teachers in the capital, were forced to abandon Western clothes and stay indoors behind windows painted black "for their own good." If they show any skin or go outside without a male relative, they risk death. Women can't be treated by male doctors, yet women aren't allowed to practice medicine. Only boys can go to school...
...that the Christian Coalition rank and file is retreating into the wilderness. Activist Gary Bauer is running for President decrying the "virtue deficit." James Dobson of Focus on the Family invokes Churchill: "Never give in; never, never, never." Yes, the G.O.P. has been morally lazy, but if social conservatives abandon the struggle, he writes, "then hope is lost...