Word: provenances
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...example, I would offer my "academic" experience with discussing the conflict in my government seminar on the Israel/Palestine struggle. There are fourteen of us, all of whom began the semester with a different set of well-entrenched prejudices which have proven difficult to reconcile. Our group discussion is as one would expect; heated, emotional, frustrating. There is some shouting, some banging of fists, the occasional eye-roll. The questions we grapple with are terribly divisive: Is the Palestinian movement fundamentally anti-Semitic? Was the removal of Arabs within the green line after 1948 a form of ethnic cleansing...
...upcoming competitions, Harvard is going to need a thrust of victories from the team's proven standouts, as well as from individuals just making their mark...
...when 90 minutes are over on Friday, time of possession, consecutive passes, and pretty build-ups will mean nothing. All that will matter is which team scored more goals, and as both Harvard and Man U. have proven over the years, running the flanks and servicing the box might just be the best way to accomplish such a feat...
...coach who led the Crimson to the biggest upset in NCAA Tournament history when her 16th-seeded Harvard squad toppled top seed Stanford in 1998, cancer, too, has proven to be no match for her strength of spirit...
...listened to the radio this week, you heard that Al Gore is "a proven liar, a pathological prevaricator." Democrats arguing Gore's case are "mind-numb morons," "vicious political hacks" and "just a bunch of sleaze-bag crooks." Don't believe a word spoken by Gore campaign chairman Bill Daley: "All he does is lie." Hillary Clinton is "the witch" and, in an allusion to Vincent Foster's death, "the First Murderer." Half of America - the Democratic half - is "socialist." Or worse. After all, Gore won the popular vote because "Communist Kate Couric" and the rest of the media "prayed...