Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This shopping period, however, as I looked forward to my last semester at college, I was determined to actually shop. After having spent the past couple of weeks in job interviews trying to explain to potential employers just how I had ended up not taking a single English course during my time at Harvard, despite my professed love for reading and writing, I decided that the time had come to shop for some electives that would make me a more well-rounded liberal arts scholar...
...slightly built and wore enormous glasses, Raines was even captain of the football team. "Mr. Everything," the Seattle Times called him when he got a four-year scholarship to Harvard. Five years later, the paper touted the 23-year-old Rhodes scholar as a "super black"--which may help explain why the OMB director bristled the first time his press staff made note of his race in a news release and ordered that it never happen again...
...fact, everyone involved in the dispute is having trouble presenting a coherent case. The German government also guarantees freedom of religion but refuses to register Scientology as a religion, considering it a profit-making enterprise that is bilking its members of their savings. German officials explain that it is precisely because of the Nazi past that they are hard not only on Scientology but on all "radical cults and sects, including right-wing Nazi groups." People have gone to jail in Germany for displaying a swastika or denying the Holocaust. And most Germans, 70% of whom tell pollsters they think...
...debate over Ebonics has essentially become an Us v. Them debate. Newsweek certainly does not use the Ebonic grammatical structure. Newsweek uses standard English to explain what Ebonics is, and how California is using it--and thereby automatically creates opposition. This opposition is the dreaded binary: male/female, cat/dog, English/Ebonics...
Rather than search for answers that might explain B.U.'s six goal tantrum in the third, or why Harvard played like there were only two periods in the hockey game, here are some interesting Beanpot tidbits instead...