Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bright and without clouds, the mountains flecked with snow, and mist hangs over the lifeless Great Salt Lake. In this old railroad town near Salt Lake City, the land of Latter-Day Saints has provided a curious backdrop for a latter-day carnival. The Lollapalooza tour -- a festival of determinedly edgy alternative music featuring ethnic food, political forums and 12 bands, including rappers Arrested Development and female grunge rockers Babes in Toyland -- has pulled into clean-living Utah...
Park Service "smokeys" tend to be crowd-control specialists, while mountaineers tend to be sentimental anarchists, so the latter may view Farabee's remarks with high suspicion. Does "need to be held more responsible" hint that another shoe is about to drop, this one on mountaineers' grand, airy freedom? The phrasing sounds grumpy and disapproving. Rescuers' rears will hang out no matter how rescue costs are paid. Will there be an official effort to check climbers' credentials, now nonexistent...
Guinier stands by her position that Clinton, like her other critics, just didn't get it. "I think that the President and many others have misinterpreted my writings, which were written in an academic context, which are very nuanced, which are very ponderous," she said. On the latter points, no one will argue with her. Guinier's work is mainly directed toward a small audience of law professors who specialize in the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 federal statute that protects racial minorities from electoral discrimination...
...thing about 'the rag' was that there was always two things going on," says Allen. "There was the experience of working as a collective as well as writing about feminist issues." The latter was seldom as easy as it may have seemed to outsiders, according to Allen...
...time" players like, say, Michigan sophomore Chris Webber--virtual semi-pros, preparing for a lucrative NBA career--deserve to be scrutinized and their play criticized. By the same token, outgoing men's basketball captain Tyler Rullman, as an Ivy League student-athlete (and more the former than the latter), doesn't deserve as much scrutiny because he's playing at a different level...