Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After the Dunster House deaths, the news office could have adopted the line that every institution has troubled students and Harvard is, alas, no exception, instead they chose to propagate the idea that the student didn't appear to have any troubles and the tragedy had, therefore, no explanation," Thernstrom says in the book, which is an expansion of an earlier article she published in The New Yorker last June...
Meanwhile the Associated Press reports that hours after Diana's funeral, the Royals considered restoring the title "Her Royal Highness" to Diana, but dropped the idea after her family opposed...
...would not be Diana at an official ceremony, or with a boyfriend, or even with her children. It would be her on the day of her wedding, when all the world was glad to be her subject and when she gave everyone who looked at her the improbable idea that life was beautiful...
...American dream is alive and well. There is no better example of this than Jobs. He came to the table in the late '70s with an idea and a conviction. The most important thing he did was to act on his dreams. I respect Jobs for doing what was in the best interests of Apple Computer. He set his pride aside for the good of the company. NATALIE HARTMAN Salt Lake City, Utah...
...story of a racist slight at an awards banquet and tells Coleman, "You can achieve all you want to achieve in life, but you can't never get past being a nigger." In the end, Coleman says, it's up to whites, who "can either give up on the idea of racial harmony and just go on...or [try] to find ways to change hearts and minds...