Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most people wouldn't know it, but "bought the farm" is definitely an appropriate euphemism for Patkin's death. He would have wanted his passing to be remembered a little differently than everyone else...
According to Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, the answer to the question, "Na democracy man go chop?" is a simple yes. Sen's bold statement can be paraphrased as follows. Famine does not occur in nations committed to the rule of democracy because elected governments know that the way to the people's vote is through their stomachs. This piece of advice will ring especially true for Nigeria if the military engine is successfully diverted to agricultural productivity...
...flyer in particular sticks out in my mind. I came across it months ago. It read "Blasphemy is denying one's dreams." I don't know the context of the phrase. It would be bad enough if it were merely commercial. In Costa Rica, where I live, a certain brand of cigarettes advertises on television along pretty much the same lines...
...wanted the students and the teaching fellows to know that they were part of something larger than themselves, not to puff them up with pride, but to inspire them to equal or better the contributions of those that had gone before them," Killen wrote in an e-mail message...
...very good at asking questions--perceptive and profound questions that helped him to get to know you, to know what you think and why you think it," said Joshua R. Carter '98-'01, a student in the Lincoln seminar...