Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...live alone in a distant city. But I still wonder whether my dad's move wasn't the worst thing I could have done to him. I ripped him away from his foundations: from the pub he went to three times a week, the bus route he knew even blind, the house he could navigate in the dark, the newspaper that chronicled men he knew in the Jaycees, the people he had built houses and warehouses...
...part of a strategy by Michigan's president, Lee Bollinger, to recapture the moral high ground that affirmative-action supporters have lost to the likes of California's Ward Connerly. Bollinger insists that for a university, racial diversity is "as vital as teaching Shakespeare or mathematics." Under a color-blind admissions system, Bollinger fears, the proportion of black undergrads would nose-dive from 9% to just...
...recent meeting with Barak, Arafat was reported to be shaking badly and had great difficulty concentrating," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "And the fact that he has failed to prepare an heir has the Israelis and Americans very worried." Western governments have tended to turn a blind eye to rampant corruption and authoritarianism in Arafat?s Palestinian Authority, in the belief that he is the sole guarantor of the peace process. But that may turn out to have been a risky gambit as Arafat?s political support among Palestinians declines along with his health...
...wasn't just the money," says Margaret Wallace, who emigrated from Jamaica in 1980 and was a poorly paid teacher's assistant for the blind before becoming a Kennedy Fellow in 1992. John was personally involved, "asking, how is the course work, what job do I want to do, what's my future?" Wallace got a degree in special education last year and now teaches those with cerebral palsy. Nearly all the 400 fellows over the years have stayed in the disabilities field...
...Blame Game (weekdays, 2:30 p.m. E.T.); and the syndicated Change of Heart. On Blame, a court-show parody (its slogan: "Love. Heartbreak. Justice.") aggrieved partners "sue" each other before a hooting audience of their peers. Change fixes up each half of a troubled duo on a blind date, then has them taunt each other about their nights of wine and sweet talk ("He liked that I wasn't wearing grandma panties") and decide whether to split or stick it out. It's enough to make one pine for the innocent days of Studs...