Word: globe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each year, students arrive from across the nation and the globe. They grew up in different cultures, subscribe to different politics, prefer different foods and have differing moral values. And they are brought here and expected to eat, sleep and learn together. It is a miracle of modern universal tolerance and a crisis waiting to happen...
...Moore said that the media, and especially the Globe's own staff, went too far toward presuming Bennett's guilt...
Believe it or not, that childhood TV classic can be pinpointed as the beginning of a cultural revolution. Ever since kids our age were mesmerized by the sheer coolness of those robotic lions flying through the air, a phenomenon that originated on the far side of the globe has steadily been invading our shores. Now, it's here in full force, and the current symbol of the fad is a bright-eyed child clutching a stuffed Pikachu doll...
...case would have been investigated by the police very differently if the victim had been a black woman and the suspect a white man, said panelist and Boston Globe Managing Editor Gregory Moore...
...proposal, assuming that factory locations and information are made public, would then staff a small, independent monitoring organization that responds to complaints rather than tries to inspect every garment factory on the globe. A secret, corporate model such as the FLA, on the other hand, lacking the aid of public scrutiny, would try to do all the monitoring itself...