Word: particular
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...start. Surely the next day we would wake up with the scoreboard still the same. Our life spans would still be shorter, our prison rolls longer and our net worths lower than the average American's. But the psychic impact could be enormous. Young blacks, like me, in particular lived with the burden of having dropped the ball that the civil rights generation advanced. Obama is our particular vindication, in that he can't win without the votes of young blacks and in his specific mannerisms. He is the start of our contribution to the fight...
...trust in the U.S. financial system. There were four pillars: insuring the bank deposits of everyday Americans, allowing access to government funds in case of a panic, providing a regime for the orderly failure of badly run companies and limiting how much credit could be leveraged off a particular asset...
...person / because, in him, / we see ourselves?” Armantrout said that her work draws from many facets of daily life—the poems she read referenced Anna Nicole Smith, Playboy, CNN and the Iraq War—but that it is not a comment on any particular theme of contemporary times. “I don’t think my writing is that intentional,” she said. “It reflects the world.” Armantrout was one of the first founders of the postmodern school of poetry known in the United...
...plan to turn Barry’s Corner—a large intersection at North Harvard St. and Western Ave. that currently contains only a gas station—into a community hub that contains restaurants, cafes and a park. To illustrate their particular vision, the presenters made comparisons to other lively urban centers that are bordered by institutions, such as Harvard Square and University Park near...
Sullivan said that the Supreme Court must decide exactly what constitutes “consent” in this particular case...