Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surfing the web in my room just a few minutes after noon, the top story on Nando.net (a compendium of Associated Press reports) is already "The Harvard Protests." The piece notes the existence of pro-Jiang demonstrators as an afterthought, a move I find disturbing given the make-up of the portion of the crowd that I saw. What's more, a slightly later edition of the same story states that Jiang took "several questions from members of the audience," a claim that rests somewhere between misleading and false...
...should a school intentionally blur the academic distinctions between its applicants just to meet its dream of a perfectly diverse student body? This diversity-by-any-means-necessary approach to college admissions seems to relegate the measurement of academic merit to an afterthought. If the U.C. regents truly believe the SAT to be culturally biased, then they should look for a new gauge of academic achievement--not simply attempt to erase the current yardstick...
Kendall's breakthrough, when and if it comes, should be one of many arising from that corner of Africa. Long considered an archaeological afterthought by scientists exploring the more famous temples and pyramids of Egypt, just to the north, Sudan is suddenly the hot place to be--and not just because of the equatorial temperatures that register as high as 100[degrees]F even during the prime winter digging season. At least 15 teams from the U.S., Europe and Sudan are sifting through the same sands for secrets of ancient Nubia, the world's first black civilization, which...
...golden age for the dramatist" was over. So was Coe's influence on the televiewer's weekly diet. On Broadway he produced The Miracle Worker and All the Way Home; in the movies he directed A Thousand Clowns. But by his 50th birthday Coe had become a cultural afterthought. He died...
...problem with Reno, says a White House official, is that for her, "consultation with the White House is an afterthought." Her critics there claim that she acts as if she's on the Supreme Court, not an appointed official running an important agency for the President. Reno's decision to seek no fewer than four independent counsels to probe Administration scandals--from allegations regarding Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros to Whitewater charges--has exacerbated tensions with the White House. "They don't know what she's going to do," says a Reno aide...