Word: rans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be biased if the U.C. ran thereferendum," Davis said. "These are desperate,unpopular leaders clinging to power...
...Labor Day weekend, 1996. During that year, I loathed my dad at times, and I'm sure he felt the same way about me. As some men do, he just withered away after she died. He wouldn't let anyone into the house to clean except me. He ran off anyone who tried to help, then complained about loneliness. He picked up women on the bus, talked about getting remarried (always to someone in her 30s or 40s, I noticed), confided details of his marital life that I really didn't want to know. It was as if his internal...
...McDonald's still under construction. "We joked and said it would be neat if we burned it down," he says. And so they did, going in with gasoline cans. "I had a Molotov cocktail. I waited until everyone was out in the car. I threw it and ran...
When Medicare and his supplemental insurance coverage ran out after a month, I was desperate. He clearly couldn't go back to his apartment. Luckily I didn't have to embark on a long search: the social-services lady at the rehab center recommended a nearby facility, actually two houses with six residents each, built around a garden, with a locked gate and round-the-clock nursing aides. It's what California calls a "residence for the elderly," far cozier than most of the corporate- or church-run rest homes and assisted-living facilities I had seen. The food...
Last week, just when I was starting to be worried that, in my old age, I was "Tomming out" because of my qualms about affirmative action, I ran across a column by a prominent right-wing ideologue named David Horowitz on Salon.com and felt young and militant again. It reminded me that blatant bigotry is alive and well, even on one of the Internet's otherwise most humane and sophisticated websites. So many racists, so little time...