Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard had its chances to assert itself in thegame. Three second-period power plays resulted injust three shots on net. Sophomore forward SteveMoore saw two glorious rebounds with a wide opennet skip through his skates. His linemate,sophomore Chris Bala, was robbed on a first-periodbreakaway by Braun and also missed just wide fromthe low slot at 14:05 of the second...
Most of us, I suspect, would disagree with the latter half of Unger's proposition. It seems a bit extreme to assert that we are morally obligated to help remote, starving children. Few of us do (at least not by mailing in $1 to UNICEF), and even fewer of us feel bad about not doing so. Why? Because, intuitively, it just doesn't seem wrong to switch the channel when something like that comes on the screen...
...helps, I hope, put not only the First Lady but also her marriage and her husband into a human context. For a while, as you may have read (we're not great at keeping secrets), she was our leading contender. Her strength and her almost surreal ability to assert her dignity were remarkable to some and mystifying to others. She also, for many months, helped determine how the nation framed the scandal debate by portraying it as a partisan battle and disgusting prosecutorial invasion of personal privacy. So why didn't we choose her? Sentimentally, a lot of us wanted...
...whole rationale for the Core is to introduce students to the way scholars wrote in that letter. "I assert that both Science Core courses and substitute departmental courses serve this function in a way that high school courses cannot...
Given the media feeding frenzy of the last year, it is possible to assert with a degree of certainty that the Monica S. Lewinsky-Bill Clinton relation-ship is the most common topic of conversation in this country. With an impeachment vote looming, it seems as if "Zippergate" will keep a high profile in the coming months...