Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some," says Whittingham, "it's the idea that 'I have to have my car here.'" Angst runs high during lottery season at the beginning of the year, and seemingly, many car owners really do get what they want...
...Mansfield describes manliness as confidence, willingness to stand up to a risk or challenge. A "manly man" takes charge. He is brave, frank, aggressive, competitive, loyal, stoical. "It is harder for women to be manly," he said, slipping on the hot mittens and taking out the cupcakes. "The whole idea of bullfighting, for example, is ridiculous manliness. A woman would never do that." The archetypal "manly" woman is Margaret Thatcher, according to Professor Mansfield. "[She] is an outstanding example: the iron lady. And yet she was quite feminine, I was told, with her husband. Even when she was Prime Minister...
...Several ideas for involving students in the fight against homophobia were discussed. These included a more extensive postering campaign, the distribution of buttons and the establishment of a peer education group. Another idea was to pass out safe zone stickers to student rooms to indicate that the rooms are homophobia-free...
...folder. When I saw its embossed Harvard College Library seal and supple paper, my first reaction was to wash my hands, carefully place it back in the envelope and store it in a safe place for 50 years, when my grandkids are ready to apply to Harvard. My next idea was to wonder why the Library sent one of those hefty folders to every single undergraduate student in what was easily a $50,000-plus project. Without even beginning to address alternative uses for that kind of money, I must ask what was really communicated last week with the library...
...trash or under stacks of paper that will later become trash. Because the Library failed to consider its audience, the package came off as awkward at best. To many, it was a sign (as if another were needed) that at Harvard, money comes first, followed later by a vague idea of the existence of undergraduates...