Word: panning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Philip P. Pan '93, co-managing editor withTucker, admitted The Crimson staff's lack ofdiversity relative to the student body madecovering the Harvard community more challengingduring his tenure...
...found Morrison's novels overly deterministic, her characters pawns in the service of their creator's designs. Essayist Stanley Crouch says Morrison is "immensely talented. I just think she needs a new subject matter, the world she lives in, not this world of endless black victims." But for every pan, Morrison has received a surfeit of paeans: for her lyricism, for her ability to turn the mundane into the magical. In the Nobel sweepstakes at the moment, Morrison looks to be a lot closer to William Faulkner, whom many critics regard as this century's greatest American novelist, than...
...genuine--if also, in many cases, self-interested--desire to protect kids. Missing were the kind of sparks you'd expect when, say, representatives of the American Library Association share a drafty hotel ballroom with members of Family-Friendly Libraries. Instead, the summit percolated with a kind of pan-ideological bonhomie--as in the Crossfire green room, one imagines, but bigger and with even worse food...
...People have to be responsible when they are serving themselves. Don't reach into that carrot stick pan with your hands," Miller says...
...will soon replace their local money with one currency--the euro. This monetary union, which is to begin Jan. 1, 1999, will be the most important event to occur in the international financial system since the collapse of the fixed-exchange-rate system in the early 1970s. An independent Pan-European central bank will determine how much money to create and will set a single short-term interest rate for all member countries. But an interest rate that curbs inflation won't do much to create jobs during the highest European unemployment since World War II. If confidence...