Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more troubling aspect of "As an X, I feel Y" comments is that they reveal a narrow understanding of selfhood. Surely, our academic viewpoints are informed by a variety of sources, including familial and cultural history, encounters with racism or sexism, or tutelage of particular professors. But to limit our analytic interpretations to those that are derived from narrow aspects of our selves poses two dangers. First, it causes us to stop short of our full academic potential. More importantly, it reinforces stereotypes which dictate that members of particular groups are characterized by uniformity of experience and viewpoint...
...Fleur Broughton, playing in the No.4 slot for Harvard, also took her opponent to the limit in singles competition. Facing sophomore Alanna Broderick, Broughton took the first set in a tiebreaker, 7-6. Broderick, however, quickly recovered, winning the final two sets, and the match...
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And with a playoff berth on the line and with the threat of another road trip to the North Country next weekend looming, the Harvard men's hockey team took itself to the limit...
...REITs will smooth the real estate cycle as advertised. The theory goes like this: with many real estate companies dependent on stock sales to fund projects, Wall Street becomes a long-sought governor over the industry. Just when there is a danger of overbuilding, REIT shares should fall and limit the industry's ability to raise money and build to damaging excess...
There was no public grousing when New York City police confiscated Francisco Almonte's car. Shortly after he slammed into a taxi last week, the 57-year-old Queens resident took a Breathalyzer test that showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, almost twice the legal limit of 0.10. Then there was the matter of his eight previous arrests for drunk driving. The grumbling began later, when the N.Y.P.D. took possession of a 1988 Acura that belonged to librarian Pavel Grinberg. The Polish immigrant, 28, who had been swerving when police pulled him over, was legally drunk...