Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY. Three fellows new in town meet the women of their fevered dreams. Except the guys are off a spaceship, and they've landed in the San Fernando Valley. Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum star in this fizzy, frizzy musical comedy...
...when Hope--a Washington lawyer with close ties to the Republican party--was tapped for the post, many said that, except for her gender, she differed little from the generations of men who had preceded...
...aside two seats for members of the Coalition for a Diverse Faculty, a minority student alliance. When the council would not similarly reserve seats for members of a conservative student group, the group proposed an amendment preventing the council from reserving seats for members of any specific student organization, except in special cases...
Harvard's method for determining the best faculty members in any given field is, at best, a subjective judgment arrived at by individuals, among whom are many who would have great difficulty admitting that Blacks were the very best in any field--except for, perhaps, Afro-American Studies, and even there some would have doubts. Such a program unavoidably and unsurprisingly mirrors the racial paradigm in society as a whole. Nevertheless, what is being slowly called into question is whether Harvard or the society which it serves is best served by such a strict meritorious system...
EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY. Three fellows new in town meet the women of their fevered dreams. Except the guys are off a spaceship, and they've landed in the San Fernando Valley. Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum star in this fizzy, frizzy musical comedy...