Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multiculturalism and political correctness. It says: If you're intolerant of different beliefs and lifestyles, you're not only being arrogant (e.g. ethnocentric, phallocentric, etc.) in thinking that your values are the only right ones--you're also philosophically wrong to think that any conviction or lifestyle can be proven rationally to be correct, true, best or even better. No one is right, wrong, or closer or farther from the truth. Ergo, we should all be tolerant...
Harvard opened the season with questions marks at running back, but those questions were answered. Yale came into the season with a proven back, Keith Price, but an off-season injury turned the running game into a problem for Yale...
...extra dinner, and give it to a homeless person. The charge per meal? To homeless: +$7.50 (remember, a meal is a meal, regardless of who eats it); to students: no change; to HUDS: -$1.50; to society: +$6. Suddenly, society benefits by quite a bit. Simple theft has proven $12 more efficient to society than the current program, with the exact same benefit to the homeless...
...Like they say, nobody's making you. Ask him if he wants to do something else for a change (maybe a hockey game?). And if he doesn't, dump him. (In general dumping is proven to be a remedy for most things in life; it makes you feel great and Harvard students' relationships are too long and drawn-out anyway...
...think that Clinton alone should bear the blame for America's squeamishness. If the president deserves blame for anything, it's for letting public opinion bully him into actions the public would later regret. Policymakers should take the polls into account, but recently the American public has not proven itself an able advisor...