Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...under way -- four years after Mandela's release from prison. Although his message of hope has been blurred by threats of violence, the election does not seem to be in serious jeopardy. As the 75- year-old leader of the A.N.C. sped from stadium to stadium in his cream- colored Mercedes, he gave clenched-fist salutes and spoke solemnly to the faithful. His tones were alternately regal and schoolmasterish, his jokes slow to develop, and much of his dry but earnest text came straight out of a yellow-and-white binder labeled BRIEFING NOTES -- CONFIDENTIAL...
...aside from the administrative redundancy of proctors, the underlying assumption that they are necessary is almost insulting. Those accepted to this college were the cream of their high school classes. They were showered with academic laurels. They're used to studying. they have certainly never had to cheat for their grades...
...cows could find their way into the milk supply. While there is a germ of truth to their argument, their tactics -- and their rhetoric -- go overboard. Calling BGH "crack for cows," an alert issued by Rifkin's Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends warned consumers -- erroneously -- that ice cream and infant formula from treated cows would be "laced with genetically altered, artificial hormones" and "large amounts...
...occupies with 27 relatives at 219 North Keystone Avenue on Chicago's run-down West Side. The dwelling is as the national headlines described it: drug deals transacted outside but not within; a sink swarming with roaches; a refrigerator filled with rotting and moldy food. An old-fashioned ice-cream crank perches incongruously on a shelf. At Melton's feet, mixed up in a pile of trash, dirt and other garbage, is some dried-up chopped beef. It's for the dog. "Son of a bitch only eats the best," explains Melton...
...this ethical breach. But perhaps this story should start us Harvard students worrying about ourselves. They told the Fernald kids and their parents that the children were brighter than the others and would be members of "a Science Club." They tell us and our parents that we're the cream of the academic crop and that we attend "the top college in America." They controlled the Fernald kid's diet, and so too do they control our diet. After all, haven't you ever wondered why we get our milk out of giant steel Robo-cows...