Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many are chuckling now as they watch this fanatic, making light of his extremism and trusting our system to disqualify him before he disqualifies us. But as this demagogue rises in the political rankings, the laughter will die down. Those who did not beforehand will then recognize that our political filtering process needs reforming. They will then realize the grave implications of the New Hampshire primary--that out of the popular vote can come one whose very platform is utterly antithetical to our constitutionally-based political system. That is, the ship of American democracy is going down...
SCIENTOLOGISTS John Travolta and Nicole Kidman, shoo-ins for Get Shorty and To Die For, are shooed...
...OFFICE HITS Oscar again frowns on films people actually bother to see: Batman and Die Hard sequels...
...hoopla at Harvard over Wilson's well-publicized defection--and the corresponding gloom at Chicago--is a hallmark of how far black studies has come since its inception during the late 1960s. Back then, even die-hard proponents of the field concede, these programs were more a sop to the angry black students who had just begun to show up in large numbers on white campuses than a serious endeavor--the higher educational equivalent of building swimming pools in the inner city to take the heat out of long, hot summers. Poorly funded and often staffed by barely qualified teachers...
...portrayed Dith Pran, an aide to New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg during the Vietnam War. The actor actually had lived through strikingly similar horrors, as both were imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge regime that killed millions of Cambodians. In a recent memoir, he wrote of watching his wife die in childbirth because had he revealed his training as a doctor, he would have been executed. "Maybe in my last life before this one, I did something wrong to hurt people," Ngor, a Buddhist, once said. "But this life, I paid back...