Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fashioned, but these Lords have one quality that is inspiring and not at all modern: they are remarkably wise. Evidence? They will indeed vote for the abolition of all their privileges. This will be a very British, very stiff-upper-lip revolution. The Lords--who vote by crying "Content!" or "Not content!"--will feel profoundly discontented, and yet will say the opposite...
Your cover story on Oprah was superb! She--along with Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas and Michael Jordan--has done much to foster positive relations between black and white Americans. Oprah has demonstrated that we can and do judge people by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. RICHARD F. MANNING Naples...
With 2Pac and the Notorious B.I.G. six feet under, Dr. Dre and Wu-Tang Clan brazenly shifting towards hip-hop sounds and stars like Snoop Dogg content to churn out uninspired drivel like "Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told," gangster rap is in danger of becoming little more than innocuous dance music...
...that old moon river again. Not content with finding ice on our very own Luna, scientists unveiled evidence in the journal Nature Thursday of entire underground oceans on no less than two of Jupiter's moons. Europa and Callisto were long suspected to bear icy crusts, but at a decidely chilly 483 million miles from the Sun, nobody expected these rocks to be anywhere near tropical enough for the liquid stuff. "If we find out four and a half billion years after the formation of the solar system that there's still enough heat that ice will melt...
Some of that content includes exclusive excerpts from books and diaries about rowing, like the diary of Adam Holland '94, who is currently training for the Olympics...