Word: recommitment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Profoundly saddened by the brutal murder of young Matthew Shepard in Wyoming last week, we wish with one unhesitating and single voice to recommit ourselves to the principles of tolerance and mutual respect in our separate communities and in the College as a whole. We consider it fundamental to a university and to our duties as House Masters to honor the dignity and life of every individual without exception--regardless of sexual orientation, religion, gender, class, race or ethnicity. ROBERT AND JANA KIELY, Adams House JAMES AND JANICE WARE, Cabot House WILLIAM AND BARBARA GRAHAM, Currier House EVERETT MENDELSOHN...
...assassination--almost two months to the day after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.--immediately prompted, at home and abroad, deep doubts about the stability of America. For the young people, in particular, who had been persuaded by the new politics of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy to recommit themselves to the American electoral system, the assassination seemed to confirm all their lingering suspicions that society could not be reformed by democratic means...
...response to his death-which has been great-can be a wake-up call for a system in desperate need of change. I hope it can be a catalyst for all of us-MIT, fraternities and individuals-to rethink our behavior, to remember how fragile life is, and to recommit ourselves to truly living each moment to its fullest. --Bill Burke-White...
...failing to pay capital-gains taxes. Infuriated, she started to deny him access to the children. Petrocelli would explain to the jury that Nicole felt O.J. had hit below the belt with the IRS letter and that she finally rejected him, just as he was deciding to recommit himself to her. She began to treat him like a stranger. That, Petrocelli said, is when three weeks of retaliation began. In that period, the lawyer argued, Simpson grew angrier and more obsessed with his ex-wife, developing a rage that resulted in death for her and Ron Goldman...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "America must recommit to its historic spirit of community...we will ultimately solve our nation's problems within our families and our communities...