Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest Mansfield affair has led to some interesting conversations among students, who are quick to apply their own experiences to the issue. The following was overheard in the Yard...
...other College officials belatedly acted to improve the oppressive environment in Dunster House. Liem (no doubt prodded by these senior officials and by the realization that his tenure as the Master of Dunster was up for review this year) made a public apology for his handling of the affair and announced several positive changes in the way in which tutor hirings will be conducted in the future...
Replace Liem as the third chair of the pre-med committee with someone now connected with the affair. Liem appointed himself to this post at last Wednesday's meeting, but students need a pre-med chair not implicated in this affair...
Americans are still dealing in misconceptions about theologically conservative Christianity. Consider the critical success of Walter Kirn's She Needed Me, a novel about a love affair between a fundamentalist Christian anti-abortion rights protester and the pregnant woman he stops from entering a clinic. Everyone from Entertainment Weekly to the Wall Street Journal has praised the book; even Sassy raves that the novel should be recommended "to anyone who is serious about understanding all possible perspectives of our current abortion issue...
...first Dove's love affair with poems unfolded with little encouragement -- or interference -- from her teachers. That convinced her that poetry should be experienced, not talked -- or taught -- to death. "One of the major reasons why poetry has gotten a bad rap is that at school we had to read a poem and then answer questions about it," says Dove. "But I think that when a poem moves you, it moves you in a way that leaves you speechless. Poems, if they're really wonderful poems, have used the best possible words and in the best possible order, and anything...