Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long...
Reeves, introduced by President Neil L. Rudenstine as a person who "manages to both cross barriers and unite," drew from his own experiences to remind the crowd of King's message...
...tough-minded to dwindle into New Age pieties, and even though he does not hesitate to call the Gulf War "one of the great disgraces in our history," he equally stays clear of reflex anti-Establishmentism: at times, he says, he has been obliged to remind more militant friends that police self-discipline makes this "a very easy country to be brave...
...People can lie, but we try to investigate to get the clinical view," Catlin says. "We can't be sure if it's being faked, but we remind students that make-up exams are much harder, that you'll have other things to deal with when the make-up exam rolls around...
...Sergeant Darrell Siler's face twitches when someone mentions the Oct. 23, 1983, truck-bomb attack in Lebanon that killed 241 U.S. servicemen. Had he not been on leave that day, Siler would probably have been killed with his buddies. "There's a lot of places in Mogadishu that remind me of Beirut," he says. His voice cracks. "I hope nothing like that ever happens here. Our rules of engagement are different. There we couldn't fire unless we were fired on, and we had to get permission first. Here we can use deadly force if we feel threatened. Maybe...