Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Right now, America has more pressing needs: better infrastructure, more teachers and still more textbooks. We can ill afford to pour precious money into technology that educators have not yet mastered. Yes, the information superhighway is a blessing. But not when it foolishly misdirects our scarce resources...
...YORK: An eight-team women's professional basketball league begins its inaugural forty game season Friday when the New England Blizzard take on the Richmond Rage at the Hartford Civic Center. The American Basketball League follows such ill fated attempts at a pro game for women as the Liberty Basketball Association, a league that never made it past its first exhibition game in 1991. This time around, league organizers say they have the financial backing, and the demographics, to make their game a success. ABL boosters point to statistics showing that basketball is the number one youth sport for girls...
Barnicle then alleges that as we entered the lobby, George Baker benignly asked us: "Can any of you people read English?" The truth is that Baker confronted us and attempted to interrogate us in a hostile, ill-mannered fashion, his tone full of seething rage. Over and over again he furiously questioned our reading skills. Perhaps I'm a bit paranoid about racial issues, but I thought his comments seemed especially inappropriate because our group was over-whelmingly comprised of racial minorities...
...would like to express my respect for Allison Kent '99 and commend her courage for her letter "Mentally Ill Students Marginalized and Trivialized" (Oct. 12). Hopefully, any disrespect Ms. Kent has encountered at Harvard is the result of ignorance rather than bigotry. Education is the key, and letters such as hers can overcome ignorance...
...take a look at that editorial page again. David W. Brown refers to Christopher Columbus as a "genocidal madman" (Dartboard, Oct. 12). Columbus massacred Arawaks because of his societal and personal beliefs, not because of mental illness. The term "mad" (not a medical term, but a common expression for "mentally ill") is arbitrarily applied to a variety of criminals, from terrorists to tyrants. This stigmatizes mental illness and inhibits our understanding of the individual's motivation. Many people would rather not believe that sane people can and do commit heinous acts. The majority of the mentally ill, as with most...