Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haines City, Fla., Clay Bellinger had three RBIs for the second straight day, but Kansas City tied it on Sal Fasano's RBI single in the ninth...
Harvard (4-2) dropped its opening contest to Florida Atlantic by a score of 8-5 before winning four consecutive games, capped by a 2-1 upset of 23rd-ranked University of Illinois-Chicago. The Crimson concluded its three-day stint with a narrow 3-2 loss against ninth-ranked Missouri...
...move into March I am forced to once more let out a sigh of perplexity and frustration: yet another Black History Month has passed us by and I am left feeling bothered and unnerved. Ever since my ninth grade of school, the observance of Black History Month has been a problematic issue for me. I never could understand how it was that black history could be boxed into this neat time frame when the lives and experiences of black people have been integral to centuries of the American narrative...
...absolutely can't ignore. Trying to fit the black experience into the confines of February has trivialized black history. For too many people, black history has become a few famous faces, some choice quotes, a bit of kente cloth and productions showcasing singing and dancing. I realized this in ninth grade, when I helped organize the Black History Month celebration at school. I remember leading the auditorium in the pledge of allegiance, staring out at a sea of faces and wondering what exactly we were really teaching people about black history. They'd already seen the silhouettes of Martin...
...Democrats and Latino parents are coming out in support of the initiative speaks clearly to the failure of the current bilingual program to educate its constituents. Anecdotes abound about students in the bilingual program for six years who were unable to compose a basic English sentence and about the Ninth Street Elementary School, where "English instruction" consisted predominantly of three hours on the playground and in the lunchroom imbuing the English language...