Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply unacceptable. The administration tried to defend the rights of an alleged criminal while ignoring the safety risks posed to the female student. So far, administrators have offered no convincing explanation to either the alleged victim and her family or to the entire Harvard community. And ironically enough, the latter's safety depends on Harvard officials' ability to cooperate with Harvard police and treat all cases involving threats and sexual harassment with the seriousness and responsibility that they deserve...
...statement from O'Riordan, a genial midtempo song called Ode to My Family. "We were raised/ to see life as fun and take it if we can," she sings. The album overflows with honeyed pop melodies, in particular the introspective Twenty-One and the aching Daffodil Lament. On the latter, O'Riordan shows off her voice, yelping one moment, going supple and suggestive the next, and then suddenly becoming unnervingly direct: "I have decided to leave you forever/I have decided to start things from here...
...long as there are serious political issues facing Asian Americans qua Asian Americans, like Proposition 187, I would opt for the latter course...
While the former is questionable, at least according to one dining hall official I know (who will remain anonymous), the latter is not: from the summer before freshman year to commencement, Harvard students are deluged with thousands of welcome and not-so-welcome tips on how to live life at Harvard. Add that to the copies of "Life's Little Instruction Book" that we all received as high school graduation presents, and you've got overkill...
...financial gains), Native Americans are struggling with the wages of survival. Once the only people on the North American continent, they have persevered as an ethnic minority only to face the classic minority dilemma of whether to assimilate or to affirm a separate identity -- and, if they choose the latter, they further face a raft of federal definitions that can profoundly affect their economic welfare. The result is painful tensions between individuals and between tribes. Says an Indian activist: Just the question of how much Indian blood an individual possesses has become "a kind of built-in self-destruct button...