Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part, we pledge to be accessible and polite to every reader. We will return telephone calls quickly and welcome participation and ideas. We will print our telephone numbers and address on page four of the newspaper every day. If we make mistakes, we promise to correct them quickly and ungrudgingly. We will welcome all undergraduates who want to join our staff and we will do our best to teach you what we know...
...attribute just about any platitudinous remark to me and it will probably be entirely correct," said Brodhead, the eleventh person to hold this position since it was created...
...generalize," Star writes, "about a group that is said to be politically disengaged and politically correct...technologically savvy and unconditionally ignorant, busy saving the planet and craving electricity and noise, prematurely careerist and proud to be lazy, unwilling to grow up and grown up already...
Bill Clinton has also been known to party hearty, but in his soul he may be a wonk. He is no more afraid to be square in his musical taste (his favorite sax player -- Kenny G?) than Maya Angelou was to be passionate, politically correct and perfectly understood in her Inaugural Day poem. At 13 balls that night, Clinton was like the college grind who drops in on frat bashes the night before the exam to show he's one of the guys, then sneaks back to his dorm to cram. Perhaps there is as much Nixon...
...obstreperous hired guns at the University of Miami (Dallas' Jimmy Johnson)? Can the American Football Conference ever win another Super Bowl, having lost 10 of the past 11 to the National Football Conference? Will the half-time show be a total bore, Michael Jackson's participation notwithstanding? The correct answers are maybe, maybe and absolutely...