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This I don't find to be "preaching to the converted," and I don't feel that AWARE encourages anyone to "obsess about race." What does arise is an opportunity for expression of various and differing viewpoints. I'm sorry to disappoint Larew, but with diversity as Harvard's motto, it's unlikely that most people's thinking is alike. Hence, most people might want to think for themselves before they say that AWARE Week is not going to help them much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARE Responds to Criticism | 2/20/1991 | See Source »

...book (by Tom Wolfe), a top director (Brian De Palma) and some of Hollywood's hottest stars (Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis). But the pundits are predicting it will disappoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Hot Holiday Season | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Everybody's pretty confident," Taylor said. "We're hyped. We want to disappoint the crowd...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Gridders Seek Sweet Revenge Today At Princeton | 10/20/1990 | See Source »

Only! Long before the series' April premiere, ecstatic critics were priming TV viewers to expect the unexpected. Lynch's two-hour pilot didn't disappoint. It was frantic and lugubrious in turn, a soap opera with strychnine. In one night, the show had hip America hooked. Twin Peaks stoked a media frenzy unseen since the Dallas heyday. But this time the director, not the star, was the prime beneficiary. David Lynch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...takeover of Iraq and the weakening of Iraq as a military counter to Iran and Syria. The pragmatists added a kicker -- probably wishful: just forcing Saddam out of Kuwait would humiliate him so badly that it might lead to his overthrow. Said Bush last week: "It wouldn't disappoint me if the Iraqis got up and said, 'Look, this man is our problem.' " But he stopped short of setting that down as an American objective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Pausing at the Rim of the Abyss | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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