Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plagiarize? Out of some clammy hope for fame, for a grade, for a forlorn fix of approbation. Out of dread of a deadline, or out of sheer neurotic compulsion. Plagiarism is a specialized mystery. Or the mystery may be writing itself. Many people cannot manage it. They borrow. Or they call up a term- paper service...
...friends find it ironic that Watson has modeled maternity clothes in the Houston Post. "What amazes me is the notion of Betsy Watson as a fashion statement," laughs Koby. "She's always had the reputation for being the worst-dressed and worst-coiffured person in the department." Hollywood could fix that. Lee Brown predicts that "they will make a movie of her life someday...
...Frequently on Friday nights we have no hot water," said Ann L. Meyer '94, who lives in Weld Hall. "It has happened at least four or five times. The [Harvard Facilities Maintenence personnel] came to fix it, but the next day it's cold again...
...whether the chemical is legal or illegal. Here boundaries blur and melt. "Responsible" adults -- fathers, mothers, bankers, Senators, solid citizens -- become dangerous aliens. Their cars fly across the median in the middle of the night. The high began as a creamy indulgence and ends as a squalid necessity, a fix. The soul begins to die. It passes over into realms of the surreal and savage, into moral blackout and passivity...
...fact is, to call sexual violence a "women's issue" is a serious misnomer. Women can't fix it on their own and shouldn't be expected to. Society doesn't expect Jews to stop anti-Semitism, or blacks to stop racism, or children to end child abuse. Until we demand that men do their share, we will always be going around in circles: safety vs. freedom, daring vs. fear...