Word: mention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backs. Students still pay far too much and far more than they can afford. I cannot believe how excruciatingly disingenuous Harvard is when it says that its students' "demonstrated needs" are met and that they need give no further money to financial aid--the administration forgets to mention that at the same time, it will soak up the extra money itself...
...Legally, I'm responsible for them until they're 18." Yet many others believe that invading an e-mail file is no different from opening a pen-and-paper diary that your daughter keeps under lock and key in a dresser drawer. A lot of parents--not to mention kids--find that a breach of parent-child trust...
HATE SITES The Web carries more than 1,400 racist, anti-Semitic and other hate sites--not to mention websites specializing in police photos and morgue shots--according to the Wiesenthal Center. Many of these pages have names that could easily turn up in homework searches. It's ugly, toxic stuff. The best antidote is to teach your children to find it as repugnant...
...second semester reading period. Spring fever is in the air, and we lucky Harvard students have two weeks to relax and enjoy the warm weather. What could be better than Frisbee in the Yard or sunning on the MAC quad--not to mention the opportunity to redeem oneself by catching up on all that reading not done in the last three months? By the time finals come around, we'll all be incredibly well-studied and might even have great tans to boot...
...former Ma Bell became the nation's No. 1 cable company when it finally won MediaOne's hand. Comcast, for stepping aside, gets to buy 2 million of AT&T's cable subscribers to further solidify its current position as a regional powerhouse and national No. 3. Not to mention $1.5 billion in deal-breaker fees from MediaOne (AT&T will foot that bill). So Comcast is happy. MediaOne's stockholders are definitely happy. And the groom? "This deal, along with the TCI purchase, is one that AT&T needed to make," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl...