Word: points
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Advocates of the exams say the results prove their point--that many teachers in the classrooms were not qualified for their jobs...
Junior co-captain Brenda Taylor will likely be the other top point-scorer for the Crimson. Taylor was Harvard's most versatile athlete last season. At the indoor Heps last year, she won the 55-meter hurdles, placed in the 200 and 400-meters, and ran in the winning 4x400 relay...
...back to the point where she was at in secondary school, she could vie for a league title," Haggerty said...
Bernstein's brilliant melodies coupled with Stephen Sondheim's moving lyrics tell a story of injustice, poverty, crime and, yes, stereotype. But that story is intentionally told to reveal the assumptions inherent in society, to point them out to the audience in order to combat them, not to perpetuate them, as the Amherst petition's signers would have us believe...
Just as the point of "Romeo and Juliet" was to emphasize the power of love over the irrationality of rivalry and hate, "West Side Story" reminds us that issues of discrimination and injustice never go away. The portrayals of the gangs, white and Puerto Rican, are intended to illuminate the desperate situation of a life based on violence and discrimination along racial lines...