Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violent crime merits vigorous protest. Professor Wisse argues that a "hushed vigil" would have been more appropriate than the "self righteous...[and] thuggish" protests which took place around University Hall. What about our constitutional right to assembly? Harvard may be called an "ivory tower," but the laws of the land still apply within its gates. What she deems "political hysteria" is perhaps well-deserved outrage at an administration which has done too little, too late to deal with the issue of sexual assault on campus...
...great trial for a people already deeply affected by 800 years of English occupation and tyranny. Most had been reduced to lives of subsistence farming. English laws and landlords did not allow the trade of traditional Irish goods and grazed their own cattle upon large chunks of Irish land that they now "owned." Catholics were discriminated against, tenants were evicted, and the Irish language was forcibly superceded by English...
...Irish-Americans have a responsibility to our ancestors, to those who suffered needlessly during the famine, to those who left their loved ones forever waiting at the docks to pursue new lives in a New World, to put our perceptions right, to help spread peace and freedom in the land that birthed our grandparents and throughout the world, and to remember, to always remember...
...Congo that Kabila inherited was in need of help. The vast river basins and dense rain forests of the Congo, a piece of land the size of the U.S. east of the Mississippi, have never been conquered by asphalt or rail ties. Steamers still ply the Congo River, the only efficient means of transport that survived Mobutu's unbenign neglect...
...malls in all the land--nearly 1,700 climate-controlled bubbles of raging hormones, Gap jeans and plastic trees--the Galleria was once the most famous, and those early-'80s movies glorified a national culture. But the Galleria, like those movies, is dated now. If you haven't guessed, you are reading a mall's obituary. So don't say the media never give you any good news...