Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the proposal may be an important news item, just as newsworthy are the many forums and service projects that Black fraternal organizations, like Alpha Kappa Alpha, have implemented to enhance campus and community life for people of color. It disturbs me that neither The Crimson nor The Independent has published an article on the fact that each of the Black fraternities and sororities represented on this campus has established its own scholarship fund to help needy students. Nor have the papers covered any of our forums on South Africa, on improving racial awareness or on images of minorities...
Bush spoke grandly of "the revolution of '89," the explosion of freedom, then pathetically listed Panama as item No. 1. This only drew attention to our sideline role in the truly historic developments of 1989, in Eastern Europe. Perhaps there is little more we should or could have done in 1989. But 1990 and beyond will be different...
Venting pent-up frustrations was the first item on a Crimson agenda that read more like a eulogy for the helpless Big Red. After the first three events, Harvard had jumped out to more than a 20-point lead...
Minority groups, with few exceptions, have not made the legacy policy a leading item on their agendas. Perhaps some minority activists fear that questioning preferential treatment for legacies would cast doubt upon affirmative action admissions. But the issues are conceptually distinct. Preference to minority groups counterbalances years of discrimination and prejudice, while preference to legacies reinforces the all-white boys' club tradition...
...have the cachet it once had, but in the realm of antiques, the phrase is coming to mean extraordinary value for well-fixed investors. When two tiny, exquisite 18th century Philadelphia tables were auctioned at Christie's in Manhattan last Saturday, the prices they fetched were breathtaking. The first item, a dainty piecrust tea table, sold for $1.2 million; the second, a rectangular pier table less than 3 ft. high, was whisked from the block for $4.6 million...