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Aronberg defended Beys and the council for trying to organize a concert--an endeavor which has repeatedly ended in bitter failure for the body which lost $35,000 on a 1989 Suzanne Vega concert and $25,000 on a 1990 Ziggy Marley concert...
Thwarted in his first literary endeavor, Turowremained as a teacher at Stanford for two years,before taking the LSATs. Although Turow wasoffered a tenure tracked position at RochesterUniversity and a contract to write movie scripts,he chose Cambridge and law school instead...
Good intentions do sometimes go awry, in helping the poor as in any other human endeavor. Go see the current movie of E.M. Forster's Howards End -- or read the novel -- for an exploration of that theme. But the reflexive crediting of "good intentions" has become a standard throat-clearing exercise by those who wish to attack government antipoverty programs. This serves their rhetorical purposes in two ways...
...will take their question at face value and assume that it was asked in the hope of obtaining information. We also fear that their ignorance may be shared by others; so, in the interest of education, we will endeavor to answer this question. Although ,it is true that "no" is a single syllable word, there are a number of reasons that might make it psychologically difficult for a woman to say "no" in the context of a date rape situation...
Inwood, a transfer from Yale, felt that the decision was unwarranted. she defended herself saying that the board's former president felt the decision was too harsh. Reproducing Georgia Inwood's first endeavor on campus and she criticizes the board for handing down such a stringent decision...