Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film that contributes to the problem that he speaks of. To do so would take days; Dole only had time for one speech. Please forgive him if he did not have the chance to write a 300-page book on the collapse of our culture. Furthermore, Senator Dole's mention of raplyrics should not be seen as motivated by racism. It's just that when it comes to drawing on sex and violence in music, rap groups have received much more media coverage than other equally deplorable musicians...
...grown up being embarrassed that I cared about school, and now I felt I hadn't cared enough. Soon after I arrived, my "high" SAT scores became something I preferred not to mention, and I couldn't believe how little I had read and how inadequate I felt to address the issues thrown at me in my dorm and my classes...
Most Harvard students who pass the odd sculpture daily wonder about its origins, but never learn the truth. Crimson Key tour guides may mention the lion-turtle (actually a dragon), but tend to concentrate on more mundane tales of John Harvard and "the statue of the three lies." The history of Harvard's buildings--the exterior of the Ivory Tower--is all too often lost among the cliches...
...mention prosperity. DEA officials estimate that the Rodriguez brothers oversee 80% of the cocaine trafficking in the world, with profits of about $7 billion last year, and say that they have also begun to make deep inroads into the heroin market, previously dominated by Southeast Asian drug lords. Although Miguel remains at large, the Colombian government crowed over Gilberto's arrest. "This is the beginning of the end of the Cali cartel," announced President Ernesto Samper Pizano. A press conference at police headquarters in Bogota, where Rodriguez was paraded about like war booty, had the air of a New Year...
What will archaeologists in the year A.D. 5000 uncover when all that is known about us is stored on a microscopic computer chip? You noted that the Egyptian records don't even mention the empire's dealings with the Israelites. One reference was written in the fifth year of the reign of Merneptah, Ramesses II's son and successor, commemorating his victory over the Libyans. It confirms the crossing of the paths of the Israelites and the Egyptians. Perhaps if archaeologists dig a little deeper, they will find Moses' swaddling clothes, and the historical debates will finally end. WALTER...