Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decisions that you make in the next week have similar consequences for your upcoming semester. The four or five numbers you list on your study card will color everything, both academic and otherwise, that you do for the next 17 weeks. Yet a surprising number of students approach shopping period with reckless abandon. Like the unwitting partisan who overlooks the gravity of redistricting, these students risk a torturous sentence to a hell of their own making. Hence, a systematic approach to shopping period is needed...
...found yourself in a jam, and the Kroks are nowhere in sight. You've spent a night or two flipping through Courses of Instruction, undeterred by the cover of excessive color...
...understand; there are all these little 2 by 2 squares [of uneven color],'" Randall says the artisan asked. "I was like, 'Yeah, butter pats...
...didn't want it to look like an old boys club," Randall explains, noting that the color scheme and carpeting cannot be "typed...
Shipler in particular should be commended for tireless and nuanced reportage. But there is a hollowness in each of these books. Sleeper's book will probably provide more ammunition to color-blind conservatives than to the liberals he intends it for, while the exhortations of Coleman and Shipler--that white Americans should look within and take up the cross of racial healing--will appeal mainly to those who already have. That three ambitious, intelligent books should fail to break much new ground suggests, sadly, how difficult thinking and writing about race in an innovative way has become for most Americans...