Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ceremony was interrupted by three Harvardstudents who appeared on the library steps intheir boxer shorts. The men disrupted the rites byblowing out candles, pulling down their shorts,and singing the Canadian national anthem, "OCanada," during Ender's speech...
Well, what about Lynn Yeakel or Barbara Boxer, one keeps wanting to ask, running for the Senate at the "dangerous age" of 51 -- or any number of our year-of-the-woman stars? Are they in denial too? Women already spend much of their lives in service to biology -- bearing and raising children; so how sad to arrive, finally, at the empty nest, only to find that it's bubbling over with its own toxic hormonal brew...
...knowledge, that powerful awareness of the genetic link between Africa and its lost children was alloyed with a more complex emotion: a realization of all that was lost when our unwilling ancestors made their transatlantic voyage. Our centuries in America have transformed black Americans into a Western people. The boxer Muhammad Ali, after visiting Africa, joked that he was glad "my great granddaddy caught that ship." The point is that whether or not we rejoice in the fact, our ancestors did come to America, and not many of us can ever go completely home again...
...time sushi eater? In crucial California, at least, the reason was a climactic revolt against politics as usual that rewarded not Clinton so much as outsider Ross Perot and, to a historic extent, a surging team of women candidates led by Democratic U.S. Senate nominees Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer...
...gender victories raised the unprecedented prospect of two women Senators elected from California next fall. Moderate Democrat Feinstein, a former mayor of San Francisco, roundly defeated state controller Gray Davis 58% to 33% and will face appointed incumbent John Seymour, a moderate Republican, in November. Liberal Democratic Congresswoman Boxer, with 44%, overcame both Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy and Congressman Mel Levine and will take on conservative Republican Bruce Herschensohn for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Alan Cranston...