Word: jr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straight out of high school, scoring a luxurious home in San Diego and becoming no-worries wealthy through the sport he loves. He has appeared in commercials for Mountain Dew, Gap, AT&T, Gatorade and milk, taking his place beside the white-mustached Pete Sampras and Cal Ripken Jr. But Tony Hawk isn't a tennis or baseball player. He's a professional skateboarder who spends his time in swimming pools. Empty swimming pools. Preferably lefthanded, kidney-shaped pools with lips of grindable concrete coping, perfect for landing nollie backside 180s, pulling fakie 540 kick-flip indies or even busting...
...from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams can become sullen and morose in a place decorated in grand color-by-number style where a person's every wish is fulfilled? Cuba Gooding, Jr. breathes some life into the story. His energy actually recalls some of Williams' early comedic work, and serves as a constant reminder of what Williams lacks in What Dreams May Come. Jeremy J. Ross
Bill Fletcher, Jr., director of education with the AFL-CIO, addressed the relationship between politics and labor...
...view of Harvard officials, what exactly constitutes expression, which is protected from discipline, and behavior, which may not be protected? At a 1990 Faculty meeting, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Joseph S. Nye Jr., then chair of a student-faculty committee to develop free speech guidelines, expressed the committee's view that it should be within the authority of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, to remove a banner hung from the windows of Holworthy Hall that read, "Some group, get out." Others might argue that such an action should fall under protected free speech...
...glory and passion that defined U2 in the 1980s is here in full force. Starting with the anthemic "Pride (In The Name Of Love)," their memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., the album is an emotional ride wrought with equal amounts of politicized calls for action and elegant longings for love. For those people less than enamored with U2's dabbling into electronica, this collection is like coming home to a time when Bono's long hair and earnestness were a comforting alternative to the cold, mechanical music of the 1980s...