Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nancy A. Redd '03 is looking around the Quincy House Junior Common Room at her fellow BSA members, some of whom are shocked at her first-round decision to eliminate all basketball-lovers. Her choice leaves one man standing: chess champion Shearwood "Woody" McClelland '00. The crowd laughs. Some hoot, "Woody!" The two hug, and the audience gives voice to a collective, "Awwww...
...problem that multiracial students at Harvard face in their daily lives. All agree the question of race poses complex questions of identity and that they do not have a common solution, or even definition, of the problem...
...think that they were shocked...that my sister and I were going through problems," she says, adding that comments like "What are you?" were common...
...stage. This window is used by both families, and links them in a way. Both families have only a glass window to protect them from the forces of the war; both mothers wave goodbye to their sons from this window. It stands as a symbol of the common human suffering behind...
Into the contentious debate about the role of religion in public schools comes a nice bit of middle-of-the road common sense: Teach, but don't preach. "The Bible and Public Schools: A First Amendment Guide," unveiled Thursday by a coalition of 20 normally at-odds groups (such as People for the American Way and the National Bible Association), is a how-to book for schools who want to teach about the Bible without teaching the Bible. TIME senior religion writer David Van Biema calls the move "a terrific thing," saying that it could lead to a greatly increased...