Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guidance counselors, our families, our internal social barometer. Once the gate is open to us, it is barely possible to do otherwise. But if it was not our choice to come in, is the burden foisted upon us when we leave then especially unfair? Hardly. We did not ask for our intelligence or our privileges, but we did not refuse them, either...
...student protestors and the Faculty, the University agreed to discontinue the program. Since then, cadets have had to travel to MIT to take their classes. Up until 1994, Harvard helped subsidize the MIT program, but now the University doesn't even do that; the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gays violates Harvard's anti-discrimination policy...
Reports of the death of modern recording labels, however, are greatly exaggerated. For one thing, MP3 tracks aren't exactly the easiest things to find-ask any student who has spent hours surfing the net to find a particular song. Sites which offer free downloads can appear and disappear in a matter of hours and many illegal recordings don't always have quality sound. And there is something about having the actual album that a folder of MP3 files will never be able to duplicate...
...Earth. Chen shuttles between East and West, playing fiercely intelligent seducers in the Hong Kong Temptation of a Monk and Red Rose, White Rose while making onscreen love with Anne Heche in Hollywood's Wild Side. She marries happily to Peter Hui, a San Francisco cardiologist. Who could ask for anything more...
...exercise stock options, diversify immediately. Remember, your most valuable asset--your career--is also tied to the health of your firm. If you're over age 55, your employer may allow you to sell some of its stock held in your 401(k), so be sure to ask. In your taxable accounts, lean toward diversified mutual funds, or individual stocks in at least six industries--and avoid the one in which you work. If you are concentrated in a single stock in a taxable account--and are not wealthy enough to join a swap fund--you'll have...