Word: eighth
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...belong to a pool of supposedly disadvantaged minorities. I struggle with the skewed concept of race in America. For some reason, having black blood is almost seen as some kind of contamination. How would this racial-political dialogue play out if, say, Barack Obama were one-fourth or one-eighth black? I am reminded of the Christian teachings on original sin. However good, intelligent or capable a person you might be, there is something that still taints your righteousness. Whether we like it or not, Obama's black half will ultimately lead to the demise of his presidential aspirations. Yohanne...
...past, Mattison, along with others in his community, asked the University to establish and fund a kindergarten through eighth grade school and community center instead of making physical improvements to the neighborhood...
...regular-season sweep of the league’s upper echelon with a tidy 4-0 victory over the No. 10 Big Green (11-7-3, 8-5-1) before 1,489 fans at Bright Hockey Center. Sophomore goalie Christina Kessler anchored the effort with her school record-setting eighth shutout of the season, breaking the mark set by Ali Boe ’06 in the 2003-04 season. “We’re going into every game with an ‘X’ on our back and coming out of every game, win after...
...regular-season sweep of the league’s upper echelon with a tidy 4-0 victory over No. 10 Big Green (11-7-3, 8-5-1) before 1, 489 fans at Bright Hockey Center. Sophomore goalie Christina Kessler anchored the effort with her school-record-setting eighth shutout of the season, breaking the mark set by Ali Boe '06 in the 2003-04 season...
...always evident that Venter would become such a transformative figure - particularly when he was a boy. He was never a terribly engaged student (his 2007 autobiography, A Life Decoded, includes his eighth-grade report card, filled with Cs and Ds). He fondly recalls testing the patience of both his parents and the pilots at San Francisco International Airport when he and his friends, pedaling furiously on their bicycles, would race planes taxiing for takeoff on a remote runway. (Airport officials eventually fenced it off.) In 1967 he went to Vietnam, where he had been drafted to serve as a hospital...