Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They are blowfish inflated with self-righteousness--never upset but "shocked" and "outraged." A profoundly masochistic breed, they are never so gleeful as when they are aggrieved. Conversely, they are never so lost, dejected, and confused as when they get what they want. Rather than suffer from such a fate, the Protesters will increase their demands, or impute ulterior motives to those who have capitulated to them...
...Austin West has been transformed mildly--and another classroom may meet the same fate tomorrow morning," a male voice said...
...final outcome, it seems, is to be determined only by will-power, adrenaline, sheer fate...
After all, the relative truth of creationist and evolutionary theory is not susceptible to a vote. Nor are the psychological mechanisms of childhood learning. To consign the academic fate of America's children to anything less than astute professionals is to invite mediocrity. The American educational system has problems far more pressing than the moral significance of the Rainbow Curriculum. Let's leave the management of out schools to people with the experience, training and wisdom to confront them...
Last year at this point, Harvard was one game behind Yale, having split its two games with the Elis. The four games against Yale this Saturday and Sunday should be the key to deciding Harvard's fate for the remainder of the season...