Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company to rehabilitate housing. I have overcome all obstacles to achieve my goals. However, I have lost government contracts which I am certain is due to affirmative action programs. Meanwhile, I've seen quite privileged women or better off blacks get those contracts. I am a much more common story than you would like to acknowledge. I believe affirmative action is a new method of class exploitation. It is evil...
...know that Harvard is a place much better endowed with talk than action, with ambition rather than hard work. So here it is: your school--your student government needs you. It knows that you are already playing rugby and doing common casting, and comping FM, and starting up your own PBH group, but it needs you still. It needs your voice, your ideas, your commitment. It needs you because you are a creative and intelligent person, infused with a mind or soul that is uniquely yours and unsupplied by the next...
...18th century may have been a time when English common law was studied and revered, but at the end of the 20th, we're more familiar with TV's Judge Judy than with James Madison. "High crimes and misdemeanors" sounds like it could mean anything, from murder to jaywalking. And here's the rub--Mason's dirty little secret--it could mean anything. The Constitution gives the House of Representatives sole authority to decide what constitutes grounds for impeachment. That's why President Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868, when a nasty political dispute got out of hand. (The Senate...
...price has simply grown too wide between big and small companies with comparable earnings per share and comparable prospects going forward. Last week the great Peter Lynch--who outperformed the S&P for the 13 years during which he made Fidelity's Magellan Fund America's largest--brought his common-sense wisdom to bear on the issue. He's adamant that the real value today is in the little stocks, and he's confident that some will grow to be big ones. You have to get the next Ciscos and Intels precisely when they...
...most self-regarding of actors), and her daughter Ellen, forced to give up an all consuming career to nurse her mother (Renee Zellweger, in a wonderfully clenched performance). This reconciliation Streep encourages in the subtlest of ways. There's no apology for Kate's lifetime of good cheer and common sense, just an opening up of those modest qualities, so that her family and we are gently, unsentimentally embraced and enlightened by their grace and bravery...