Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nobody gets on probation. All our guys graduate. National Collegiate Athletic Association," he says, pointing to your NCAA pin. "There's a word in there called collegiate. What's that mean? It means that you make decisions not because of money and not because of outside pressure. You make a decision because it's the right thing to do, and the Ivy League playing in the NCAA tournament is the right thing...
...mean, I don't know how to write a thesis. I've never written one before...
...just because students choose topics that are out of the ordinary, it doesn't mean they don't want their research taken seriously. Will P. Meyerhofer '89, who is writing his thesis on "Three Early American Gay Novels," says he "hopes more people will do theses on gay topics...
...black youngsters in his sixth-grade class in Los Angeles. In school, he says, "kids like to feel my hair because it's fuzzy. They ask questions like do I get sunburned when I go to the beach. Dumb questions like that. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I'm different." Khalil's father Bernard, a Xerox executive, would like his son to someday attend Florida A&M, the mostly black school he and his wife attended. "It's important for a black kid to understand that there are lots of other smart, talented blacks in the world...
...tough guys are really decent guys at heart may be, as Norman Mailer once remarked, "one of the sweetest thoughts in all the world." And a necessary one. For, as the novelist also observed, "there's nothing more depressing than finding a guy as tough as nails and as mean as dirt...