Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Read George Bush's lips...
...class. Among the news of promotion to the Navy Seals and the Most Valuable Player awards, I found "Kathy, having spent her sophomore year in Rome, is now readjusting to ordinary life at Georgetown." This seems unfair--my report, had I bothered to send in the little card, would read, "Jeffrey, a junior at Harvard, has a passport solely for the purpose of identification...
June 1: Bush unveils his fiscal 1990 budget, with NO NEW TAXES. "Read my lips, Congress, NO NEW TAXES!" he proclaims. "If you really need to increase revenues, then you are just going to have to raise the taxes we already have...
...season, presumably in response to viewer complaints, the show introduced an extra character to the skit. Although he was also played by a white actor, the character was supposed to be a more handsome, intelligent, and articulate Asian. Whenever he came onscreen, there was a caption that read something like "Positive Ethnic Role Model." Clearly, the show's creators were aware that they were offending people. Their solution, however, was glib and insensitive, belittling valid anger with a ludicrously negative portrayal...
...article "Gender Affects Views on Clubs" was for the most part an excellent and informative article. However, it included one gross misstatement. While most of the article clearly and directly stated the facts concerning the poll taken, the final conclusion read, "The poll suggests that despite statements by the anti-final club group Stop Witholding Access Today (SWAT) that the gender discrimination at the clubs is an issue of basic civil rights, the issue is identified with liberalism on campus." The implication of this statement--that because SWAT's cause is a liberal cause it is not a civil rights...