Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modern America for one person to have one job his whole life is extremely unusual. In medieval France or medieval China, it would be completely normal for one person to have one job and live in one place his entire life. In terms of overall history, it isn't quite as freakish as it seems in Dunster House. The whole world is different now, you see. And to have the difference of the whole world reflected right where I live is much more exciting than...there's nothing wrong with living in Concord [traditional bedroom community of Harvard professors...
...beyond the mounds of mail--both bizarre and mundane--that get delivered each day to student mailboxes in the Houses and in the Yard, Harvard University Mail Services (HUMS) oversees the flow of an addition 1.25 million pieces of inter-office and normal mail bound for addresses throughout the University system...
...wouldn't have given it up for anything in the world," she said. "I had a normal childhood...
...film, based on a novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen, zeroes in on a single American family and manages to weave a stunningly intricate emotional epic. Ellen Gulden, played by Renee Zellweger, is a reporter for a Manhattan magazine leading the frenzied life of a normal New Yorker (the recent trends of female heroines working as magazine editors is starting to become both annoying and disturbing). The main narrative unfolds in flashback, as Ellen is being questioned by a district attorney about the possibility that she assisted in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Through her answers...
Americans were the targets in the East African terrorist bombings. Unfortunately, the victims were mainly poor Tanzanians and Kenyans going about their normal daily activities. In no way have the perpetrators gained anything. The suspects are Muslims, and I wonder whose teachings they are following. Muhammad's? Definitely not. He practiced Islam the religion of peace. Please--peace, not terror. MUBARAK BIDMOS Pretoria, South Africa...