Word: customize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dozens of striking exhibits in perhaps the smartest display of Native American culture ever assembled: the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, which opens this week in New York City. The museum is housed in the Beaux Arts splendor of the 1907 Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, which has been elegantly restored and renovated by Ehrenkrantz & Eckstut Architects. Its permanent collection boasts the million-plus artifacts collected by George Gustav Heye, a turn-of-the-century New York City banker who bought out Indian communities much the way William Randolph Hearst emptied Spanish monasteries. One section...
...custom, Coach Tim Murphy answered without a hitch...
...know it's an outdated custom that discriminates against the mediocre, but linking societal validation and achievement made a lot of sense. After all, you shouldn't take pride in something which a) you had no hand in bringing about and b) is morally neutral...
...author's secret appears to be the steadiness of his gaze. He looks straight at whatever he is describing, concentrating utterly (for a chapter or only a sentence or two) on, say, why bears are more dangerous than tigers in animal acts, or on the merry custom of "choosing day," when carny couples pair up. Or on the night toward the novel's end (and it may be toward Hope's end as well) when the hero's teenage daughter talks to him by his bedside for 12 hours and more, telling him about the time in Rome when...
Western delegates generally hailed the CNN footage as much needed publicity for a long-overlooked custom that is common in Egypt and other parts of Africa, though it has no roots in the Koran. But the Egyptian press denounced the tape as a betrayal of Cairo's gracious hospitality and tried to discredit the piece by charging that CNN had "staged" the circumcision and paid the participants. Actually, CNN paid $300 to a free-lance producer to find and make arrangements with the Hamza family, who in turn paid $44 to one of her aunts for serving...