Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Workers stumbled upon human bones buried in the walls of Holden Chapel while working on renovations of the chapel's basement, college officials said yesterday. Harvard archaeologists will likely get the go-ahead to begin excavating the remains tomorrow...
...Unlike Kosovo?s Serbs and ethnic Albanians, its Gypsies have few international advocates speaking out on their behalf. U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson and its high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata, have both visited some of the thousands of Gypsy refugees crammed into makeshift facilities inside Kosovo, and vowed to provide them with support. And pan-European Gypsy organizations such as the Romany Union and the European Roma Rights Center have sought urgent undertakings from NATO to protect their kin in Kosovo. In the end, though, there may be some cynical politics in play. "The campaign against the Gypsies...
...September that I really wanted to do a play, and I was fascinated by the material. What motivates some people to commit what is, from a judgmental point of view, a heinous act? We don't really acknowledge the irrational aspects of life that exist just because we are human...
...Month Club, learning from him how to read. Bearing witness to his reports--he wrote one on every book he read for the club--and his discussions at the monthly meeting of the judges was like taking the world's best creative writing course. He was a humane critic, seldom unkind, with few foibles. (I once did hear him say, "Faulkner makes me giggle.") The books he loved most were those that bore two Fadiman standards: lucidity and a mind at work. He found those qualities most notably in a first novel of the 1950s. Not all his colleagues agreed...
...brevity of the Carmen Electra-Dennis Rodman marriage. It also jibes with what evolutionary psychologists have been saying for some time. When it comes to settling down, women know that the alpha male may not be the best bet for the "parental investment" required to raise a human child. But when the biological bells are clanging, they still want his genes...