Word: address
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President of Radcliffe College Linda S. Wilson and Dean of Radcliffe Educational Programs Tamar March may address students in front of Fay House...
...faces during our orientation week, we promptly stop saying "hi" to the others we met once we figure out which is our crowd. It comes out in the way we meet people at parties at night, and then when we see them the next day, we don't even address them. It comes out when we can have lunch with somebody and then a few hours later pass right by them on the street without even nodding...
...admittedly, I can be the worst villain in this regard--I suffer from my own insecurities and can be very passive. There are certainly people I know on campus, people I don't dislike, but people whom I don't address when I pass them on the street...
...result, what followed was something rare in Washington: a surprise. With the rallying cry "Save Social Security first," the President said in his State of the Union address last January that he was ready to take on the largest, most popular and most politically treacherous social program ever devised. His statement was easily written off as a blocking tactic aimed at stopping Republicans from plowing the budget surplus (now projected to be as high as $75 billion this year alone) into tax cuts. But last week, in the first of four promised forums on Social Security, Clinton proved...
...both California and Texas, the preliminary results of these experiments are in. And the hopes they inspired--that more minority students could be brought on board through approaches that don't address race head on--have deflated. At Berkeley minority admissions have plummeted. Of the 10,509 applicants who were offered a slot this year, only 2.4% are African American, down from 5.6% a year ago. Chicano students of Mexican descent, about 11% of the applicants accepted in 1997, made up just 6% this year. Taken together, African Americans, Native Americans and Latinos of all backgrounds, who constitute about...