Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apparently, freedom from the responsibility to divulge actual actions is widely appreciated. Some even count on the vagueness. Ken G. Haig '99 admits that because of the ambiguity, "people give you the benefit of the doubt." Jack P. Donahue '01 agrees, confiding it's "to protect pride, because then people can assume you did more than you did." However, most see the ambiguity as either a way to protect privacy or as a concession to politeness. "Especially girls don't want to say, 'yeah, I fucked this guy last night' or 'yeah, I went down on this guy,'" insists Begnaud...
...there be no doubt, the need for continued work is great. Only 10 states have anti-discrimination laws that protect gay and lesbian persons. The federal government does not. No state recognizes gay marriage. And the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a Congressional bill that would protect against workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, is making slow progress through committee...
...change was in a part a reaction to the large number of guests at the meeting who said they wanted to protect Radcliffe...
...style was also appealing. "When he came to see me, he had on red shoes and a red jacket. The guy knew how to capture your attention." But because the decision was such an important one, Toledano knew he should see as many candidates as possible. "I wanted to protect myself from too much emotion...
...will not be pleasantly surprised. To protect himself and the process, he'll be grilled, chased and pretty much treated like another Joseph, in Kafka's The Trial (original German title: Der Prozess). But don't let the pedigree fool you. The Spanish Prisoner is exemplary entertainment. Come expecting a dour jeremiad on man's corruptibility--or even a slice-of-lice drama like Mamet's American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross--and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The villains in The Spanish Prisoner (like the war-games con men in Mamet's Wag the Dog script) dress well, speak...