Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while it is easy for Mr. Yu to assert the importance of objective journalism, I believe he would change his tune if he were in my shoes. Thomas P. Lynch Boston...
...music is sublime (or so the operagoer is told beforehand) and of course, in Italian, love conquers all the nasty little moral quandaries of life. But whereas Violetta will die tragically at the end of the opera, clearly depicted as a victim of her hedonistic lifestyle, Roberts' character will assert her independence from Gere and at the same time win him back. The differing moral judgments of the same lifestyle is ample testimony to opera's anachronistic qualities in modern-day liberated society...
Elie G. Kaunfer 95, chair of Harvard Radcliffe Hillel, said yesterday, "It is totally absurd to assert that the goal of Hillel is to oppress any group of people.. and it's people like professor Martin who unnecessarily aggravate Black-Jewish relations." Kaunfer is senior editor of the Crimson...
...cases, that tax consequence could be avoided through a device called a "mirror loan" or a "back-to-back loan"; Lindsey says he thinks the Clintons used such an arrangement but is not sure. Partner McDougal, however, says he never heard of any such thing. Experts consulted by TIME assert that if there were such a loan arrangement, it should have left a paper trail on the Clintons' tax returns that is nowhere visible...
Asian Americans need to assert their collective political identity more often. However, they can't take their example from the minorities of the past. The new Asian leaders will be academics and prominent media personalities, not militants like Malcolm X. After all, our situation differs markedly; we don't have to deal with systematic oppression, but rather with the last vestiges of discrimination which we have ignored for too long...