Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over-achievement that Harvard men can and do brag about, dating and romance are absent from that list. And, with good reason. Male-female relationships on this campus are a rare, endangered species for the most part. The problem is deeper than Harvard men's lack of experience. Campus women are also socially backward. I don't deny reality. We also sacrificed a social life in high school in order to cultivate the achievement level that catapulted us into this University...
Fischer says that the international inquiry wasn't meant to implicate the government: "Its purpose would be to establish the facts of the massacres, some specific culpability--things which are notably absent in this case." Yet Algerian officials, who maintain the violence is only "residual" even as public squares teem with villagers seeking refuge, continue to refuse any outside interference. For many Algerians it will be a long, terrifying January...
...politicians who are dismantling that social contract have had to find cheaper ways to address the insecurity that voters express. Bill Clinton is a master at playing to people's fear of losing control. He offers cell phones to citizen patrols and television ratings for absent parents. As more and more corporations shovel workers into managed-care programs, Clinton unveils a new patient "bill of rights": "I think it's fair to say that almost every family feels some insecurity at the scope and pace of change in the world," he said. "There are so many people in this country...
Williamson kids may talk like therapists, but they act like guarded and wounded 15-year-olds whose cell phones and videotapes stand in for a sadly absent adult institutional authority. Scream worked not just because teens reacting to murders in their midst by ironically citing old horror movies was a fresh take on a way-stale tale, but also because their jaded nonchalance felt almost frighteningly cynical...
...information was missing in The Crimson's coverage. One reader suggested that profiles of one grape grower and one ex-grape worker were insufficient to portray either their respective sides of the debate or the controversies surrounding worker conditions. The context of grapes as a national issue was conspicuously absent. Crimson readers have told me that they had not heard of the grape boycott before it became an issue at Harvard. A more thorough examination of the historical prominence and symbolism of the grape boycott would have put the issue in context...