Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Your husband, the most powerful man in the world, had sex with an intern? Don't worry about it! Your police department is known for roughing up innocent civilians? Hey, no problem! It's all taken in stride in the rough-and-tumble world of New York politics. Just ask Al D'Amato. Empire State voters should simply understand that their likely candidates for the 2000 Senate seat are far from saintly. But maybe they like it that...
Last fall Jonathan would sometimes stay up all night playing sports games on his video deck. When his grades slipped, his parents cut off access, then limited use to the post-homework hours. Jonathan realized that his gaming was getting out of hand when "a friend called to ask me to go to a movie and I said, 'No, I've got other plans,' just because I wanted to stay home and play video games...
...Rachel, when I write, "This is what I want to tell you," please read, "This is what I want to ask": Where do we, who ply our trade in this magazine and elsewhere, find the knowledge of the unknowable? How do we learn to trust the unknowable as news--those deep issues of the heart...
This year, those sources dried up, jeopardizing the continued existence of a class that actually delivers on all of Harvard's promises. ESPP, however, was given the chance to save it. An internal committee reviewed the ESPP concentration this year, providing the perfect opportunity for the concentration chairs to ask that the administration put its money at least vaguely near where its mouth is and commit funds to the course. When students and alumni learned that the class was going to be cancelled, they mounted a letter-writing campaign, appealing to the President, the Provost, the Dean of the Faculty...
Like modernism in art, the definitional question may depend on who you ask. If saturation of a market leads artists to abandon the genre, comercial hip hop may be at odds with itself. When punk rock broke big with fluffy nuggets that received popular recognition, some mourned the loss of the political punk. Others proclaimed a new genre to exploit, an upbeat gleeful energy. But whether or not the movement had died rested on the definition of the movement. The NextLevel conference highlighted this question able future of hip hop culture.William...