Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more importantly, the Wellesley women say, the bus gives them access to the cultural offerings of Boston and Cambridge--the restaurants and concerts, museums and movie theaters, clubs and colleges. Shipping party-goers from Wellesley to Harvard and MIT, and back and forth, is, one of the things the bus does, but not the most important...
...best thing to do, regardless of whether people called me a `radical.' I never responded to that nomenclature," Guinier said in a 1983 interview. "I never made a unilateral decision--I always felt there was something that I could learn from my colleagues. My goal was to be forth-right, and to support the fight against injustice...
...going to need massive injections of investment because of the problems that apartheid has created. I mean the backlog in education, in housing and so forth, and we do want to get money into the economy. So please don't let all your funds go to Eastern Europe...
...because I see very few stories -- actually only a few quotes and sound bites and pictures of the same demonstrators in Leipzig shouting their unification slogans -- as evidence that the country's citizens are marching headlong toward one Germany. In East Berlin, where I rode the trains back and forth to the West from the Friedrichstrasse Station, where I walked into cafes and discos and shops and asked people their feelings, I could hardly find any citizens who said they wanted a reunified, single Germany. Perhaps in the far- off future, said a very few. Definitely...
...Kempinski Hotel in West Berlin, an American newspaper reporter assured me that "once these people have spent a month or two crossing back and forth and been blinded by the lights and BMWs of West Berlin, that will be the end of all the talk about a new socialism." My colleague might turn out to be right -- he has a pretty good track record in this part of the world. Still, the words of the East Berliners -- and more important, the intensity of feeling behind them -- left a deeper impression...