Word: affirmers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Floods and earthquakes usually spell political trouble for Latin American strongmen, but Venezuela's killer flood may affirm the popularity of President Hugo Chavez. The former paratrooper, who once served jail time for a failed coup attempt, personally took command of 1,000 elite paratroopers over the weekend and supervised the delivery of disaster relief. By deploying the military throughout the country to help Venezuela cope with the devastation that has killed at least 10,000 people, Chavez appears to be delivering on his populist commitment to share the oil-rich country's resources more equitably. And to underscore...
...Yale College was founded on a small patch of besieged inner-countryside land, thus launching a tradition of proud inferiority that has thrived for nearly 300 years. Tomorrow, on the playing fields of the Yale Bowl, sad Yale College will once again affirm that tradition by treating the assembled crowds to a well-orchestrated display of athletic incompetence. We here at Harvard would like to take this moment to pay tribute to our amiable friends to the south, who for so long, have graciously accepted their status as a lesser University...
...first single, "I Knew I Loved You," is a good ballad and shows off Hayes' falsetto nicely, but it's only a mild reflection of how poetic the rest of the album is. Affirmation deals not only with romance, but also with the real-life consequences of love and the pain that follows it. As their titles indicate, "I Don't Know You Anymore" and "The Lover After Me" aspire to this more reality-based love song, even though the soft beats and harmony make the melody very pretty. But it's "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine" that truly...
...research seemed to affirm the conclusions of many at the time--Harvard would be forced to change only so as not to seem stingy, not to stave off any real loss of students...
...page book, which was published last year by the Harvard University Press, has been widely praised as the definitive biography on Cardozo, a progressive justice who voted to affirm the New Deal programs on which the court was deeply divided...