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Word: contrasting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radcliffe, where secrecy and closed doors have marked two years of negotiations, Dunn presents a striking contrast. She is easily accessible and friendly with students, having taught tutorials for history and literature concentrators and a first-year seminar...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan and Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: With Wit and Wisdom, Dunn Becomes Dean | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...essentially the only duty of the first day. Putting the syllabus on the Web could help students and professors alike by helping move true teaching one day closer to the beginning of the term and by helping students know what a course is really going to cover in contrast to what a sexy paragraph might make them think. Currently, the helpful but at times outdated or incomplete list of books in the CUE Guide is the only hint to what books will be read...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Shopping Period Reconsidered | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...sure my disability has a bearing on why I'm well known," Hawking has said in an interview with the BBC. "People are fascinated by the contrast between my very limited physical powers, and the vast nature of the universe I deal with...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hawking Describes Shape of Time | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...contrast, the Harvard defense started two freshmen in Lobach and Colin Eyre, plus junior Matt Edwards and senior Ryan Keeton...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: No. 8 Yale Too Much for M. Soccer | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...sense of not belonging finally have little to do with his origins. Chang-rae Lee, whose first novel, 1995's Native Speaker, announced the arrival of a new talent, makes sure of Hata's humanity by giving him an inner life independent of ethnicity and suburban status. But the contrast between Hata's appearance and his reality would surely surprise most of his neighbors, especially when he confesses, "I feel I have not really been living anywhere or anytime, not for the future and not in the past and not at all of-the-moment, but rather in the lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Absence of Comfort | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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