Word: exceptionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corner of Sixth and Bluxome streets, however, the fourth-floor brick wall of a building erected a few years after the 1906 quake tore loose. "Bricks were falling, and dust was everywhere," said Charles Pinkstaff, who ran out of a nearby structure that also rumbled. "Then everything was quiet, except for water dripping somewhere. I saw a car smashed so flat I couldn't tell if anyone had been in it." When he got closer, he saw that the driver had been decapitated. The falling wall had smashed seven cars, killing at least five people. "I've seen people...
...Some of the students have gotten too concernedwith it, but most don't seem that concerned withit," he said. "I don't feel I've had much pressurefrom alumni, except ones solicited by thestudents. Most of them have written letters sayingthey trust my discretion as dean. Even if they'reconcerned about public interest, they support mydecision to close those positions...
After all, "anywhere but Adams, Eliot or Kirkland," is a perenially popular first-choice house. Students who are disinclined to live in stereotyped houses could still avoid them under the non-ordered choice system. Non-ordered choice would thus introduce randomization to every house except the ones that need...
...vote, in which 42 Republicans joined 189 Democrats in the unsuccessful bid to enact the bill over the president's veto, left intact an 8-year-old ban of federal financing of abortions for poor women, except when their lives are threatened...
...ghost pangs, ghost tendernesses, wistfulness) but not thought really. The shocks turn into dreams. The memory of such pictures, flipped through like a disordered Rolodex, makes at last a cultural tapestry, an inventory of the kind that brothers and sisters and distant cousins may % rummage through at family reunions, except that the greatest photojournalism has given certain memories the emotional prestige of icons...