Word: placings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every community must inevitably grapple with hateful and malicious crimes by lone individuals, but that does not make the current situation more palatable for the gay members of our community who now feel that much less comfortable in a place they should feel is their home. While it is frustrating not to have any recourse to action, the strong communal condemnation these acts have received offer the hope that those who committed the hate crimes will realize that it is they who have no place in our community...
Duehay said that though much of his life has taken place within a half-mile radius of City Hall, he has tried not to be "provincial...
...most current year for which statistics are available, 16 percent of undergraduates chose to identify themselves as "other" or "unknown," according to the Harvard University Fact Book. Due to the paucity of multiracial or biracial students' organizations at Harvard, these students are left searching for a place to fit in. If they want to get involved with an ethnic organization, they must choose which aspect of their heritage to identify with. It is appalling that in a diverse college community like Harvard, a multi-ethnic identity is not given sufficient recognition by the student body and the administration...
Even at Harvard, with its plethora of resources, multiracial and biracial students feel neglected. Caught in limbo between cultures and identities, they need a place to turn. The desire to celebrate and appreciate all the distinct components of their heritage is strong, but it is difficult without having a reliable support network...
...like Ken Griffey Jr. to stay in Seattle. Not enough baseball players spend their careers in the same place. I mean, Roger Clemens will probably be in the Hall of Fame in a New York Yankees cap. How'd that happen...