Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being waged against affirmative action, the most potent weapon of all may be a harmless-looking sheaf of papers stashed in the book-lined office of Carl Cohen, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan. The documents, which Cohen obtained by filing a Freedom of Information Act request, contain the top-secret charts and grids the university uses in selecting its incoming class. With their frequent references to the race of applicants, and apparent use of different and lower selection criteria for minority applicants, Cohen's materials are the kind of evidence that make a conservative litigator's pulse...
...Baghdad and the inspection team there to continue its work. At the White House, national security aides convened an emergency meeting to consider a U.S. response. "This is a very serious move by the Iraqis," said an official. "It threatens the linchpin of what we've built to contain Saddam...
Critical Care is one of those movies that should come with a big disclaimer before the opening credits: WARNING: This film may contain scenes of grossly oversimplified moral dilemmas and awkward black humor. That would pretty much sum up the new release from veteran director Sidney Lumet and rookie screenwriter Steven S. Schwartz. Marred by crudely conceived, insultingly phony characters and a moral base that is prominent but insincere, the movie dies a slow, drawn out death...
...ability of these actors is most clearly manifested in scenes which contain enough translation or external evidence to make their meaning clear to the audience. For instance, Tshanini is particularly powerful in the "dagger of the mind" scene, as he contemplates his malevolently gleaming assegai. Mnisi, too, has by far her most memorable moment in the sleepwalking scene: opening with a plaintive song of mourning, the scene poignantly brings out the tragedy of her madness, as she alternates between playing in the dirt and trying, with a tragic wail, to scour her hands of imaginary blood...
Asano might have to do most of that scoring with blasts from the blue line. She and fellow defenseman Christie MacKinnon and Melissa Milbert will anchor a defensive unit which needs to contain opposing offenses for Harvard to be successful...