Word: dares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Within Choi's conception of the un-marginalized position of Latino and Asian Americans, only one explanation can account for the lack of those voices: that those groups are not capable of producing academic work of a quality high enough to be studies at institutions like Harvard. Would anyone dare support a statement so narrowly prejudiced...
Keshishian, who directed "Truth or Dare," is now working on "With Honors," the story of four Harvard seniors and their struggles on the road to graduation...
There is a tragic wrong being committed here. It comes in the form of the staff's baseless and blistering attack on two men whose only crime is that they dare to dream...
After the final bets were in, Okiki, a 13-year-old honor student, sat stony- faced at her desk in English class, silently preparing to collect a couple of hundred dollars on a dare. She had settled on a simple plan. Just wait for the bell to ring, reach into her book bag, grab the 12-in. fillet knife she had brought from home and stab the teacher in the chest while Marlena, a 12- year-old accomplice, pinned her down. Then -- whoosh -- instant respect...
...hadn't been for affirmative action; they saw it as something which lay beyond their reach., I have tutored eighth graders who can barely read at a third-grade level because the Asian languages which are their mother tongues are so different from English. Don't you dare tell me that their ethnicity has not left them at a disadvantage. And if they every apply to law school, Mr. Ramos, I hope to God that they get the benefit of affirmative action...