Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mourning. Every woman mistreated by a man--that is, every woman--could relate to moments in Diana's life that should have led to bliss and instead wound up in sorrow, humiliation and estrangement. Never mind that hers was a particular story wholly out of reach of common comprehension; it was easily translated to bad marriages and cold in-laws everywhere...
...same time as the "fin" of other things. An odd loss attended winning the cold war, that of a scary enemy (the effort to inflate Saddam Hussein to that stature was seen as nonsense). There was the apparent end of ideology as the two main political parties settled on common and largely commonsensical ground. With all such monumental successes, people may have looked around for failures and things to fix. Toward the end of the year, the President hit on the topic of racism, but there seemed to be little desire to tackle an issue by "dialogue" that might better...
...first category is, no surprise here: e-mail. As evidenced by the temporary slowdown in e-mail performance last week, we Harvard folk just love our electronic mail. In order to ensure continued benefits from this medium, a few common sense tactics should be adopted...
Continuing on the theme of common sense e-mail use. Please resolve to pay attention when replying to group e-mail messages. I know most of us have seen some message intended for one person broadcast over an entire mailing list. This is needlessly wasteful...
Next to e-mail, the most common legal activity on campus is probably writing papers. I find the best rule is first to get the necessary reading done, then write an outline. After that, it's just a matter of filling it in and citing your sources. But all this moot if you don't save...