Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rabia S. Belt '01 said she was more "afraid" ofthe merger upon coming out of the meeting...
...hung out together--bright, maladjusted kids united in their intelligence and disdain for the jock culture of Columbine High. "At dinner I made a big case for Eric," Brown told TIME last week. "I said he had grown up. He was a real scary kid last year; everyone was afraid of him. But six months ago we buried the hatchet, and I really thought he had changed. I thought he was a new Eric...
...list of 30 names with "they deserved to die" scrawled at the bottom. The epidemic has put school administrators in a tough position. "Now everyone has to be serious about everything," says Paul Houston, executive director of the American Association of Administrators in Arlington, Va., "because they're afraid if they aren't, they might be jeopardizing children." At the same time, the American Civil Liberties Union has been deluged with complaints from parents whose children were suspended for wearing black or making provocative statements on their web page. "There is a danger that schools are interpreting being different...
...Petty, an old-school rock 'n' roller to be sure, comes off almost as an endangered species here: cornered, and at times a bit lonely and afraid. Still, Petty evokes rock's glory days with fresh vigor on this CD. His voice seems comfortably worn, ably evoking Bob Dylan's articulate whine and Neil Young's angelic, countrified croon. The songs on Echo don't mess with the form much: they arrive, they rock, they leave. This CD isn't a knockout, but it has punch...
...intention of causing a crash finish. Wisely, the filmmakers have stayed faithful to Perrotta's novel. After all, the storyline sets itself up for director Payne's satiric touch. At Carver High School, Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is the shoo-in for Student Council President. After all, everyone is afraid--terrified--to run against her. She's the ultimate overachiever--member of every club, top 10 of her class, etc. etc. But she's an overachieving overachiever--she sets up a booth just to get nomination signatures, has a mom who writes to Connie Chung for advice on her daughter...