Word: acceptant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realized what I really will miss about college. While I can and will keep in touch with many of the great people I have met here, starting today I lose the only bubble I have ever really known and the only bubble I have thus far been willing to accept. Like many of the Class of 1999, I will probably enter graduate school in years to come. But we will never again be here--we will never again be simply students facing a world of worlds yet to be entered. We may be frustrated with having to choose one world...
...exit, adults. That means we gain a new freedom, a freedom both daunting and exhilarating: to create a life outside the safety of the institutional college structure. It also means that we assume new responsibilities. One responsibility falls to me and to my generation universally: to accept, and embrace, human difference...
...failure to accept human difference leads to the current disaster in Kosovo. The failure to accept human difference leads to civil war in Rwanda. The failure to accept human difference leads to Matthew Shepard's death in Laramie, Wyo.; James Byrd Jr.'s murder in Jasper, Texas; and Amadou Diallo's gunning down in New York City...
...security guards and several other unions charge that Harvard has failed this moral test, using the threat of outsourcing jobs to weaken workers' bargaining power and force them to accept reduced benefits...
However, he does say he was surprised by Harvard's decision to finally stop fighting after HUCTW refused to accept the new contract...