Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into swampland. The Farrakhan march--warmhearted, festive, lovely in its way--was a sort of culminating symptom. On respectable op-ed pages, writers have been suggesting that we might as well consider breaking off part of the U.S. to form a separate Republic of African America. The arrangement would confirm a secession that has already occurred in millions of minds all over the country. The attitude is that it was a horrible marriage from the start and has long since dissolved in chronic dysfunction, occasional riot and permanent mutual contempt. Why keep the ugly, abusive charade going? (Was it some...
...first time, astronomers confirm the discovery of a planet circling a star similar to our own. The planet is 160 times more massive than Earth; because its orbit takes the planet so close to its fiery sun in the constellation Pegasus, scientists are convinced that it could not sustain life. Even so, the discovery bolsters theories that other worlds harboring life may indeed exist...
...said the findings confirm that there is a similar attitude towards gay and lesbian professionals outside of the Harvard community...
Representatives from the housing office were unable to confirm the exact amount of the rebate...
...first thing is to try to help the council have a good ball this weekend," Epps said, adding that he spoke with the event's organizers yesterday morning to confirm plans...