Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Every time I see a woman on a billboard sign/Saying drink this beer and you'll be mine," "When an actress on a movie screen/Plays Lolita in some old man's dreams/It doesn't matter who she is/I think about you. Every time I hear people say it's never gonna change/like it's some kind of joke, some kind of game/I think about...
Delving into the heart of the matter, I ask for thoughts about the comfort level of women on the Harvard campus, and whether there is a fear of marginalization. But before any of the women have a chance to speak, a pre-frosh named Nick pipes up. He takes me through a theoretical demonstration of why he's certain that women bright and talented enough to get admitted to Harvard are going to be strong enough to hold their own here...
...from the start that Judge Jackson had no right to give such power to an outside adviser, especially one they hadn't vetted. Jackson dismissed their complaints as "trivial" and "defamatory," but the appeals court found them more credible and in February ordered Lessig to stop working until the matter could be argued in court...
...accept the physical and emotional brutalization of children as a matter of course. Children kill because their spirits have been killed. LYNN WEISS Bastrop, Texas...
...precise, I was referring to Mali's strong social capital: "something" that makes some societies function or heal themselves better than others. Harvard professor Robert Putnam first developed the idea in the late 1980s, when comparing northern and southern Italy. Social capital is rather like the dark (missing) matter of the universe: we know it's there because we can see its consequences, but it is terribly hard to get hold of and examine under a microscope. The U.N. Development Program in Mali is researching this question with the government's encouragement. TORE ROSE, Resident Representative U.N. Development Program Bamako...