Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were so bothered by the fact that we almostmissed Ulf Fireloins that [Hahs] had us double andtriple check every name in the Cue Guide,including TFs and CAs," Davis says. "If there's afake person in there, he or she has fooled theentire University...
...someone does call me a "Chink," I can put their language through the litmus test of political correctness and recognize it as degrading. Recognizing that language can be used to strip others of their humanity, political correctness only codifies this recognition into a policy. Invoking political correctness forces the person who called me a "Chink" to accept that what he or she has said offends me. I might call that person a racist, forcing him or her to come to terms with the personal bias the language betrays...
Strapping young men of the College: Uncle Sam wants you for his armed forces, and you ought to feel honored. But I can top that. The AARP wants me. Yes, you read correctly. The American Association of Retired Persons invited me to join their elderly legions this week. There's nothing like it to make a person feel special...
...rare opportunities Harvard provides its students is the chance to meet famous people--or, perhaps more accurately, to catch a glimpse of the upper left side of a famous person's face. Since I began my college career, our campus has been blessed--or cursed, depending on one's political position and the speaker in question--with the presence of everyone from Hillary Clinton to Boutros Boutros-Ghali to a whole slew of figures whose names on those red and beige Institute of Politics posters need to be preceded by phrases like "His Majesty" or "Her Royal Highness." (The Dalai...
...cheer for us or to award us their honorary degrees. Because they remind us of this fact, we are privileged to have famous people join us on campus. And to catch a glimpse of what someone's legacy might look like, the upper left side of a famous person's face may be worth looking for after...