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Alonzo did spend some memorable times with the swim team, though--like the time she was late to her first practice as a freshman because her alarm didn't go off. Or the time her eight-months-pregnant coach started having contractions in the middle of the final meet of Alonzo's career...
Strong denies the existence of left wing intolerance at Harvard. "There is a general liberal respect between the left and right," he says. "Harvard's not as bad as they [conservatives] make it out to be. They look for straw figures, and raise more alarm than there really is cause...
Imagine my wife's anguish and alarm when our beautiful brown-skinned three- year-old daughter made that declaration. We thought we were doing everything right to develop her self-esteem and positive racial identity. We overloaded her toy box with black dolls. We carefully monitored the racial content of TV shows and videos, ruling out Song of the South and Dumbo, two classic Disney movies marred by demeaning black stereotypes. But we saw no harm in Pinocchio, which seemed as racially benign as Sesame Street or Barney, and a good deal more engaging. Yet now our daughter was saying...
...alarm first sounded back in 1974, when Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina of the University of California at Irvine warned about the destructive impact that CFCs could have on the atmosphere. Before banning these important industrial chemicals, however, scientists had to confirm that CFCs did in fact attack ozone and that society produced enough of the chemicals to create a ! problem. Within a few years, most scientists accepted that CFCs were a real threat, though uncertainties remained. In 1978 the U.S. banned the use of CFCs in aerosol sprays and began pushing for international controls...
...their first match against UMass was scheduled to begin at 6:30 in the morning, but that nemesis of college students, alarm clock failure, forced them to forfeit the match...