Word: cake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police headquarters in downtown Port-au-Prince, a tax official standing on a nearby street corner summed up the skepticism that hangs over Haiti like a noxious bouquet. "It will take more than white paint to change this country," he said. "It's all just dressing on the cake...
...wasn't until the second period that Harvard got on the board. Sophomore Lauren Turner scored the Crimson's first goal, and senior Diana Clark added the icing on the cake with a goal in the third...
...always had a larger budget, so the U.C. money was just icing on the cake for us," Rocha said. "But houses with smaller budgets like Cabot really counted on that money...
...Yale graduate knows how to put her nose to the grindstone and get something done, even if it means breaking a fingernail. Four years of living in New Haven have toughened her up, given her an edge on life, made everything after Yale seem like a piece of cake. She could wrestle down a wild boar to save her children, brush herself off, and still be the epitome of wit at a dinner party at the Harvard Club that night...
Canada, still in need of a catchy analogy like "melting pot," claims to be more of a tossed salad (different elements with the same oh-so-delicate dressing), or--my favorite--a fruitcake (chunks of different goodies in the same heavy cake). This is an integrative, not assimilative, approach to racial integration. Ministries for multiculturalism, official bilingualism and a high rate of immigrant flow create an environment where different ethnic groups are free to continue their cultures without being filtered through a dominant Canadian...