Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempts of meeting once a week for the ever-popular Mesa," Rosa Rosalez '01, the group's representative to the Harvard Foundation, told RAZA members last term as they celebrated their 25th anniversary. "In doing so, they began to grow as a group and stretch the legs of a newfound collective identity...
...defense of Jackson was proof of its futility. Farrakhan did not have a clue about how the power game is really played (and still does not), and so the best he could do was issue empty threats. In contrast, Bernice King's calm, stately defense of Clinton bespoke a newfound political self-confidence among African Americans. At some point during the past 14 years, many black Americans decided to stop acting like victims of oppression and more like full-fledged, bare-knuckles players in the power game. They have been at the table long enough now to understand...
...newfound willingness to bargain is even more likely to be found at colleges generally less successful than Yale and Stanford in attracting the most qualified students. Many highly competitive schools have begun to use a thinly disguised form of merit scholarship to land prized applicants. If your family income is not low enough to warrant a need-based scholarship but your daughter is seen as something of an academic catch, she may well be offered an additional stipend to make her decision easier. Don't hesitate...
...newfound contentment springs not from all the things that have gone right, but from the realization that I will not figure out the meaning of my life this summer and may not for a while. This is a piece of uncertainty I have to throw into my back-pack and carry to work with me every morning, but I'm starting to finally accept it. All the things that I have done right recently feel amazingly good. But the hope that they can get better--and that I can make them better--is more than enough...
...just want to relax and use all the field. When I do that, I know I can hit a home run at any moment." But when asked last week to assess his own chances of surpassing 61 homers for the record, the Cubbie, however, showed that his newfound maturity as a player does not always translate to humility off the field. "Why not 70?" he retorted. "You never know what can happen in this game...