Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message, "we try to create an environment where students can be as selfless as possible...[B]y comparison with the world outside and beyond Harvard, where people get on career tracks, want to do well in order to protect and provide for their loved ones, become geographically immobilized, etc., I think college--this one anyway--provides a rare moment, when most students are at a critical stage of their development, to open up rather than closing down and drawing in on themselves...
...this was changed when council members amended the resolution to specifically add the Dean's signature and to protect the presence of Radcliffe on the diplomas...
...Moscow as a reminder of this country's powerful Russian past. Yet as one walks away from the Kremlin and down Tverskaya Boulevard--Moscow's main drag--one wonders whether the Kremlin still serves its original purpose. Built as a fortress in the 1150s, it was supposed to protect Moscow from foreign invasion...
Should the proud Russian people worry that they may lose their unique culture? Should the men in the Kremlin protect Russia from this 21st century form of foreign invasion? What will happen to the famous tormented Russian soul of the country's past? For, as MacKenzie writes, "Who has got the time to contemplate Dostoevsky when there's a living to be earned?" One cannot say right now. Today's foreign invasion of goods is just another chapter in the long history of Russia's struggle with the West, from Peter the Great building St. Petersburg to the Cold...
...considered art. The indictment involves 15 counts over the sale of "The Age of Innocence" by French photographer David Hamilton and 17 counts over the sale of "Radiant Identities" by San Francisco photographer Jock Sturges. Barnes & Noble faces $10,000 fines on each of the 32 counts."We must protect children from those who would exploit their innocence for financial gain under the guise of so-called 'art,'" Pryor said Wednesday. The children exploited in the books were not expected to comment on the case...