Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is our Harvard-Yale," Browning said."It's their chance to prove themselves and get agood seeding...
...what's a conscientious cop to do when California voters pass a ballot measure legalizing the cultivation and possession of marijuana for medicinal purposes? And when all it takes to prove need is the approval, written or oral, of a friendly doctor? And when not just patients with AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis are clamoring for the drug but also people with backaches, stress and drinking problems? One arrested planter told sheriff's deputies he was suffering from an ingrown toenail, an excuse that did not impress them. Lucy Mae Tuck, a volunteer who edits the newsletter at the Humboldt...
...there is a thread that runs through the many stories about mixed-race families, it is the amazing resilience of the kids. As difficult as the questions about their identity may be, they swiftly find ways to right themselves and move on. That resilience should prove less necessary as they move into what is inexorably becoming the mainstream...
...traditionally--and this week's full schedule of activities, films, dinner-discussions, speakers and rallies prove to be no exception--Harvard's TBTN week has evolved to serve as a crucial consciousness-raiser on campus. Female students are empowered to "take back" the symbolic night from an internal sense of danger...
...huge sport in this lonely town, and it seems that the whole pride of the town rests in the gentle cradle of the hockey stick. But the purity of the game is threatened when the amateur team is challenged to a match by the New York Rangers. Can Mystery prove itself to the world and maintain its small town dignity? Your guess. Sex scandals, sordid secrets and snooping townspeople appease non-hockey fans...