Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ultimately, though, Cuomo's verdict on heroism was more negative. "I don't think we can have heroes anymore," he told his audience. "The ground is too hard for heroes to grow." The audience was then left to ask itself: Where have all the heroes gone? And why can't we, at one of the centers of our great nation's power, generate more of them? Many of us students think that we ourselves are the seeds of future heroes. In truth, we are actually part of the hard-packed ground. We are either too cynical to believe that real...
...dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made up to look like a place where a person can read--is basically a fear of the past and an unwillingness to confront it head on and ask what it really means...
...dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made up to look like a place where a person can read--is basically a fear of the past and an unwillingness to confront it head on and ask what it really means...
...table to my right, two gentlemen pursue the affections of two female strangers. They are striking out. Without much effort at concealment the women shoot each other disgusted glances. When they excuse themselves and head for the ladies room, I move in and introduce myself to the gents. I ask them how they think they're doing. "In the bag," they respond confidently. I ask them what they do for a living. "We're students at the Law School," they respond confidently. These guys have never had sex, I conclude confidently, and return to my game of darts...
Stuck with this contract demand, Blue Jays General Manager Gord Ash shopped Clemens around to the handful of teams that can offer fair trade value and afford his salary. The latter was far more prohibitive--just ask Astros General Manager Gerry Hunsicker...