Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel is his language. I read the first paragraph four times, allowing ample time for the luscious, vivid imagery to soak through my bones. But the intensity of the novel is apparent from the beginning: the heat and weight of the lazy summer mood push the edges and demand release. From the beginning, the reader feels the hidden furnace of madness churning and knows instinctively that, if all is so plodding and weary to start, something dramatic must be brewing...
...Kosovo campaign has always been about negotiating with missiles rather than fighting to the finish. NATO isn't trying to capture Kosovo from the Serbs in battle -- that would demand a massive commitment of ground troops, risking high casualties and potentially forcing Russia to intervene. Instead, the alliance's bombs are intended to persuade President Milosevic to end his persecution of the Kosovar Albanians and accept NATO's terms for settling the Kosovo dispute...
...shakes--the Booty Call has been capturing a huge following in the D.C. area among the geriatrics and Georgetown set alike. Even Vice President Al Gore '69 has vowed to abandon the Macarena in favor of the "Booty Call." Clubs in the area can't keep up with the demand for the butt-centric moves and it promises to make a dent nation-wide. So, before the trend passes Harvard by, take time to learn the dance craze that will soon storm the nation. Here are the steps as reported by the Washington Post...
...important institutions as the family, the school and the video arcade. When the school teacher did not know any better than to call Milton's masterpiece "Pair of Dice Lost," the program functioned as an ideological clarion call to future college students like you who would go on to demand the displacement of an ossified Western canon with more relevant investigations of low culture. Several years ago a student who will remain nameless--her name was Jen--handed in a pictoral interpretation of the essay question in place of a ten-page paper. I instantly knew that she had gleaned...
About 350 students, representing three campus activist groups, protested for over three hours in a rally to ask Harvard to cut its ties with overseas sweatshops, to demand higher wages for University employees and to urge the Faculty to take a firmer stand against sexual assault...