Word: patting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...please—for the love of God—don’t pat me. Don’t condescend to me so blatantly, and then turn around and say that sexism is a thing of the past. Not doing that is one way—and the only way—to kill this elephant on the ballot…and in the room...
Harvard stayed in fourth place the entire weekend, displaying its consistency and depth across the board. The Crimson closed the meet with a third-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay. Additionally, junior Pat Quinn garnered points for Harvard with a seventh-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle and a sixth in the 100 freestyle...
...Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Ted Haggard—if those folks had been on the agenda, maybe there would have been more of a bipartisan response,” quipped one confirmed participant, incoming representative Steve I. Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat who won failed Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr.’s House seat...
...extra mile--and 92% of families wind up with their first or second choice. Even if some don't get what they ask for, race is never the sole factor in how assignments are made. "We look at choices first, we look at siblings, we look at capacity," says Pat Todd, the district's student-assignment director. "Race is way down the list...
...legal services and veterinary science--that students can't get anywhere else. Since then, Central High, a historically black school, has seen its white population shrink from 51% to 18%. And this shift could mark the beginning of a vicious cycle. "The greater the racial isolation," says district administrator Pat Todd, "the more difficult it is to recruit children of different races...