Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here in Cambridge as well. I have felt the fear of fellow pedestrians almost palpably as I walk down Mass. Ave., or to and from my dorm, because I am supposed to represent some gun-toting black monster who is out to rape or rob or kill. I have kept calm and cool even as my brow begins to sweat over accusations that somehow I was given a favored, academically undeserved admittance to this school. Astonished, I have witnessed impassioned arguments for unequal funding for predominantly black schools and vehement protests against the allegedly all-black phenomenon of welfare dependency...
...other half of the Two was the nurse who attended him, Bonnie Lu Nettles, then 44. According to Applewhite's sister, it was Nettles who told him "that he had a purpose, that God kept him alive." "Their relationship wasn't like a romantic thing, more like a friendship, a platonic thing," says Nettles' daughter Terrie, interviewed by CNN Impact's Henry Schuster and TIME's Patrick E. Cole. But Bonnie Lu Nettles, who dabbled in astrology, believed it was fated in the stars. Says her daughter: "A couple of spiritualists said that there was going to be this...
While Hollywood and the Oscars toasted the crop of "independent" movies that blanketed the multiplexes last year, seasoned cineasts in search of pioneering film work kept flocking to the small screen of the PC. That's because the American Film Institute, through its online cinema on the Internet www.afionline.org/cinema) is showcasing the classics of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd--mavericks of the early 20th century's groundbreaking medium, silent film. With the help of VDOnet streaming video software, users have been able to watch real-time versions of such 20-min. shorts as Chaplin's The Rink...
...painted Easter eggs and watched outlandishly dressed icons waving golden, human-shaped statuettes), sounded like an X-Files version of a Californian health-food store. It mattered little that unlike the members of Aum Shinrikyo in Japan, say, or that Tel Aviv terrorist, they seemed to have kept mostly to themselves and been principally guilty of credulity and self-delusion...
...turns out that Robert B. Reich, the former Secretary of Labor and soulmate of Bill Clinton, kept a diary. That's unusual in the subpoena-happy capital, and so is the tone of his kiss-and-shrug memoir--a bittersweet but ultimately forgiving account of his four years in Washington. In Locked in the Cabinet, to be published this month by Knopf, Reich describes his constant appeals to Clinton's conscience against the stronger pull of such personalities as then Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and presidential adviser Dick Morris...