Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be a waste of his time "to go through the many layers of approvals needed" in order to "effect the modest alteration of adding a signature to women's diplomas." In contrast, on the day of his diploma veto, Dean Lewis promised to advocate for the reinstatement of Latin on baccalaureate diplomas, providing women with an example of an issue on which he apparently would prefer to spend his energy...
...year, the human-rights group Amnesty International has waged a battle with manufacturers and governments around the world to curb commerce in these devices. Amnesty says electric-shock torture or the abuse of prisoners with shock devices has occurred in at least 50 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. "Torturers seem to be discovering that electroshock stun weapons are ideal for their evil purposes--cheap, easy to conceal and hard to trace," says Brian Wood, who tracks the weapons internationally for Amnesty. TIME's own investigation found few international controls over the devices, along with disturbing...
...reality. Usually the play, a form of testing and learning, is not fatal. But boys back to the dawn of human experience have had it in their bones to play violent games. Even the priggish Henry Adams, as a boy in the middle of the 19th century, joined the Latin School's army in a bloody rock-in-the-snowball battle on Boston Common against a mob of "blackguards from the slums...
...need to wait until Friday to find a jam-packed, boisterous dance floor to go clubbing Latin style. Salsa and Meringue have come right to Harvard's door with the newWepea("Yeah" in Spanish) Latin Dance club held Wednesday evenings at, of all places, the one and only Hong Kong...
Capitalizing on Genovese's experience as a Salsa and Meringue teacher, she said the three decided "to bring the New York Style Latin Dance to Cambridge, to make Harvard students more aware of this culture...