Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fellows at Harvard's Center For International Affairs. As part of the trip, I toured a nuclear attack submarine, an Arleigh Burke class destroyer and the Navy's newest carrier which was underway in the Atlantic. While I certainly enjoyed the excitement of the trip, it served a more profound purpose for me. It allowed me to reflect on the divergence between the military in action and the attitudes about our armed forces that predominate on campus...
MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN, the show that did for TV comedy what Velveeta did for cheese, is ending its long and profound run. Having hung its dirty laundry in public for 11 seasons, the Bundy family will bicker no more after May 5. Married, which got an early publicity break when housewife Terry Rakolta launched a national boycott against it for being "antifamily," drew more than 18 million viewers in its heyday but garners less than half that now. And for those who crave dysfunction, there's always The Honeymooners reruns...
...logged on to the Heaven's Gate Website. There I discovered some of the most mind-numbing material I have ever read. It amounted to a 96-page suicide note. I don't believe the approach of the millennium is going to have a profound effect on the universe or the planet. But in that strange universe that is the human mind, different laws apply. Anything is possible. MATT BUTTS St. Louis Park, Minnesota...
Because violence against women has such a profound impact on all of our lives, we are all responsible for ending it. We must all strive not to perpetrate violence and we must teach those around us how to recognize the effects of violence on our lives...
...still fighting. By last Friday, a week after the attack, Lenard had yet to regain full consciousness. While a parade of politicians and community leaders filed past his hospital bed to pay their respects, the rest of the city wrestled with feelings of profound disgust, anger and shame evoked by a crime with unusual symbolic weight. The suspects in the attack, Michael Kwidzinski, 19, Victor Jasas, 17, and Frank Caruso, 18, live in Bridgeport, a neighborhood near Chicago's old stockyards that has given the city five of its last eight mayors, including Richard M. Daley, who grew...