Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, the Boston School Committee voted to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a recent federal court decision striking down racial preferences in admissions to the Boston Latin School, the city's most prestigious public high school. If the high court decides to hear the case, it would be the first appeal involving affirmative action in the realm of public schools. A broad ruling could have widespread national repercussions, setting a precedent for any race-conscious policy in any school district...
While we are in favor of using racial preferences as one factor in school admissions, the Boston Latin standard--which admits 50 percent of its class solely on grades and test scores and the other 50 percent on race, grades and test scores--is too narrow. Though the system admirably attempts to create a diverse class, it excessively compromises standards of fairness which the Boston lower courts have repeatedly recognized...
Meyerdirk, like other Harvard students, said he values the hour each week he spends with Kellon, either in his Rindge and Latin classroom or during their privately schedule meetings times...
NARCO CHIC Fashion is nothing if not aspirational. Slip on a black shift dress--look like Audrey Hepburn! Or don a shirt with images of AK-47s and feel like a Latin American drug trafficker! This is the fantasy being played out by clean-cut men in Mexico who are making popular a dope-inspired high style. After all, it's not a crime to wear a loud shirt in public...
...creation of the name Sony highlights Morita's intuition and determination to communicate globally. He wanted a name recognizable everywhere: creative, Roman letters, short and catchy. Morita and Ibuka pored over dictionaries and found the word sonus, which in Latin means sound. In addition, the word sonny was part of the pop vernacular in America at the time, and they thought it suggested a company made up of young people with abundant energy. The combination of the two formed Sony...