Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rights of disabled people culminated in the Americans with Disabilities Act, which became law in 1990, the same year that the SDRC was formed. As a result, many students with disabilities who once would have been resigned to "special schools" are now finding arrangements that allow them to attend, and succeed, in regular secondary schools...
There are a number of reasons why students need access to the houses, whether it be safety, putting up posters, visiting friends or attending meetings. I recently had to attend a meeting in Kirkland House and had incorrectly remembered the phone number of the students hosting the meeting and received a message that the number I was trying to reach had been disconnected. I then asked the guard to let me into their entryway after showing him my Harvard...
...went on to tell me that if the number was disconnected then the students I was looking for weren't there and I should not be trying to gain access to their room. I would understand this tirade if I had not been able to prove that I attend school here, but I see no reason for there to be such a distrust of the students within the Harvard community...
...Palestinians. Those looking for a symbol of the fractious, anti-American climate that has emboldened Saddam need look no further than Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's lonely visit to the Middle Eastern economic summit held last weekend in Doha, Qatar. Despite U.S. pressure on Arab states to attend, America's closest Arab allies--Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Morocco--all refused to show up. So embittered was the atmosphere that in the end Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy declined to attend...
...convulsing the public. So many memories--such as when he paid a visit to the Great Wall of China and remarked to Secretary of State William Rogers, "I think you would have to agree, Mr. Secretary, that this is a great wall." Or when he went to Paris to attend Charles de Gaulle's funeral. The President emerged from his limousine, looked about and exulted, "This is a great day for France...