Word: forget
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Forget the CUE guide, the Derek Bok Center and all the attempts of late to transform socially stunted graduate students into Socratic-quality teachers. In the past three years, as I have sat through many poorly-taught sections, I have let my eyes wander, betting that most of my fellow classmates could do a much better job reviewing lecture concepts, explaining grading policies and creating paper topics...
...beginning of the question-and-answer session, Hannum asked the audience to remember that the Albanians were oppressed. "Serbians killed women and children, villages were burned, massacres occurred," he said, "we shouldn't sit here and forget that these are the facts...
...ever said that the original Whitewater mess was boring? Forget the excitement of the Monica Lewinsky scandal -- Susan McDougal's Whitewater contempt trial went on a wild roller coaster ride on Friday when, of all things, a juror brought an Arkansas criminal law book into the room where the jury was deliberating McDougal's fate. A court clerk snatched it before the jury could consult the book. The judge abruptly halted the proceedings to investigate the possibility of jury tampering, but deciding that no harm had been done he later ordered the deliberations to resume on Monday. "The strange incident...
There is a danger, through, in reducing 1969 to a symbol.We shouldn't forget that the protests also set into motion a number of important institutional changes whose effects are still felt today. The basic goal of SDS and the protestors was to force the University to server its ties with the military and in particular to eliminate the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus. It is ironic that as this anniversary passes, a bill is before the Undergraduate Council to reverse this hard-won reform...
...surrounded by military equipment in a clearing about 50 yards away. He said he was as surprised as I was to be in this chaotic situation. He had got the call from the President just as he was heading out the door for a golf outing. I'll never forget it: here was the guy in charge--a key player in a historic drama--bothering to take the time to chat, to see how I was doing. Before he finished this, the first of several visits, he shared a quote from Mark Twain with me: "Courage is resistance to fear...