Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think what I wanted to show first semester was that the council could actually get things done, because the one word attached to us was 'ineffectiveness,'" Lee says. "If we could plan ourselves so that we had something coming every week, and make a definitive statement and take definitive action on something every week, then we were showing we weren't ineffective...
...offended by this attitude, and by the implication that an alumnus who disagrees with the University's position is disloyal. One of the most important conversations I had with my roommates was about what we would have done during the Vietnam War if we had been drafted. One said he would have left the country, but would not ever have tried to return, explaining that if he disagreed with the government, he had an obligation to renounce his citizenship. I believe this destroys the premise of American democracy...
...very happy with how we've done with Asian-American students," Chao says. "We're confident about how we treat Asian-Americans in the process." David A. Plotz contributed to the reporting of this article...
...largely out of a sense of embarrassment" over having an Arabic first name, he says. "Growing up Arab in America is not easy--much harder than growing up gay in America," says Tarazi, who has done both. He recalls seeing Arabs in movies and comic strips as cruel terrorists or wealthy sheiks--nothing he aspired to become...
Tarazi says the organization needs more American-trained people like himself who can "speak for the PLO in an accent that Americans can understand." He says the organization's representatives have done little to improve their image with Americans. "They wear dark glasses; they wear kaffiyehs," he says, referring to the traditional checkered scarf that is a mark of Palestinian identity...