Word: decentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communist victory, and the U.S. embassy had begun burning its files. (Not fast enough: long lists containing the names of Vietnamese and specifying what they had done to help their American allies eventually fell into the hands of the Northern victors.) cia analyst Frank Snepp, in his book Decent Interval, recalled roaming the embassy grounds on April 15 and noting a telltale sign of onrushing disaster: the outdoor swimming pool was unusable because of ashes wafting down from the incinerators on the chancery roof and floating in the water...
...EVERY DECENT CITIZEN IS SURELY AFFRONTED by the picture of Asahara on your cover. It may sell magazines, but doesn't the press have a moral responsibility not to glamourize terrorism? Rest assured that your choice of cover picture will inspire like-minded individuals to gain worldwide publicity by perpetrating their own acts of terror...
...music, it was better than one would have expected. Daniel A. Horwitz '98 comments, "I actually think the DJ did a pretty decent job. Usually, it's all bad, but he played some terrible stuff, some good stuff, some slow stuff, and some fast stuff.' Old dance favorites like "I Will Survive" and "YMCA" drew enthusiastic crowd response, and couples held each other close during mushy songs like "Lady in Red," "Unforgettable," and "Unchained Melody...
...first semester here at Harvard, I took Power and Society in Medieval Europe: The Crisis of the 12th Century (Historical Study B-17). I did well in the class and enjoyed it. Yet, even as a person who has a decent knowledge of European and Medieval History, I was often lost in lecture and I know that a lot of other students in the class felt the same way. If the class had used the twelfth century history of Flanders, Catalonia and England as a rubric through which to teach "major approaches to knowledge," that would have been one thing...
...since the Crucifixion was conducted by Roman soldiers, he reckons, Jesus' body was most likely left on the Cross or tossed into a shallow grave to be eaten by scavenger dogs, crows or other wild beasts. As for Jesus' family and followers, depicted in the Bible as conducting a decent burial of the body according to Jewish law, "as far as I can see, they ran,'' Crossan says. "They lost their nerve, though not their faith...