Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson couldn't rally, dropping three of the next four, putting the match out of reach. The only bright spot in the heavier divisions was the continuing dominance of freshman Frank "The Tank" Volpe who easily overcame his challenger by the score of 12-1 and improved his record...
Local children poured into the Bright Hockey Arena on Sunday to watch the annual performance by The Skating Club of Boston, a fundraising event sponsored by The Salvation Army and the Leverett Housing and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program...
...afford to take a job teaching or one in journalism. And hell, I can't even look outside the big cities, because my Harvard degree has tainted me. People either resent me because of it, or wonder what I'm doing there if I'm such a 'bright Ivy League man.' I just want to scream...
Imagine your four-year-old boy--healthy, cheerful, with a bright future you take for granted--suddenly swept into an epileptic seizure. He goes stiff; his eyes roll up; his jaw is clenched. Except for his piglet squeals, he might have been dead for a minute or two. Children during grand mal attacks seem possessed; in the New Testament, epilepsy is referred to as a "demon." So the mother of an epileptic boy first looks at doctors as exorcists. But as she sees them prescribe a series of harsh medications, each creating side effects that the next is supposed...
Many come to Harvard University with the bright expectation that a Harvard education will provide the opportunity to learn about those with different backgrounds, different world views and different perspectives. But hardly a month goes by before some begin to play a collective blame game. They ask questions such as: "Why do students segregate themselves along racial lines at the dining hall?" "Why do students have to agitate for ethnic studies?" "Who are these people clamoring for a multicultural center?" But rarely do those who continually blame take any action to change what they see as wrong. Rarely do they...