Word: peered
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JOURNALISTS are used to being outsiders. We spend our time watching other people's lives. We thrive on conflict and human suffering, and then, for lack of a better term, exploit it so that fellow outsiders can peer in and gasp with us. Along the way, some of us at least try to impart some lesson about justice, and hope that the lesson isn't lost amid the squawking...
...Martin's main strength is her ability to tap into the ways young girls think and feel about life. Her stories explore the spectrum of preteen challenges from sibling rivalry and peer pressure to the death of a grandparent and the arrival of a new stepparent. Divorce is a fairly constant theme. "That's on the minds of kids a lot," Martin says. The books also touch on issues of race and ethnicity. Baby-Sitter Claudia, for example, is Asian and a talented artist, but she has trouble academically. "We wanted to defy the stereotype that every Asian is brilliant...
Here at Harvard, I don't have to peer far of deep to see sincere concern and efforts among faculty, staff and students struggling to keep alive within themselves the strength to love. As an African-American man new to the Harvard community but old to the family of world harmony and peace, I see that we have something special here at Harvard, miles ahead of the rest. I know that problems may exist of major proportions among people of color wanting their struggle to live on, and rightly it should, but I'm not looking for the negative...
Tara A. Nayak '92 is not pplying to any medical schools that require peer recommendations...
...Economist Isabel Sawhill at the Urban Institute, a Washington-based research organization, recently published a paper in which she suggested that all teenagers be encouraged to use Norplant at puberty. "The decision to have a child would become a conscious choice -- decoupled from the dictates of biology, hormones and peer pressure," she wrote...