Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entirely sure how my name found its way onto these law schools' minority mailing lists, but the bluntness of the instruments upon which law schools rely to locate affirmative action targets provides one explanation. When you sign up for the Law School Admission Test, item 9 on the registration form asks you to "blacken only one oval that best describes your ethnic background...
Mixed-ethnics like me can't answer this optional item easily. After vacillating for a minute or two between "white" and "Asian," I gave into the "one-drop" mentality that dominates Americans' ethnic self-identification. It tells you that if even the slightest bit of the blood in your veins (even one drop) comes from somewhere outside northern Europe or the British Isles, that somewhere is your native land. With some discomfort, I made my choice. Asian...
...Pick any item from the L.L. Bean wintercatalog...
...During the summertime Tevas were a very hot item...People still occasionally come and ask for them," Thomas says...
...overshadowed by the next round of hot tips. On Thursday, Clinton named Henry Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Jesse Brown, a wounded Vietnam veteran, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Their appointments were only the No. 3 news item out of Little Rock that day. No. 1: Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, will be named Secretary of Defense this week. No. 2: Clinton has settled on Richard Riley, former Governor of South Carolina, as Secretary of Education, instead of Johnnetta Cole...