Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beneficiaries of the University's economic growth. President Mandela's visit should remind us, however, that as long as Harvard continues to invest in irresponsible companies such as Shell, the University cannot be wholy committed to its principles of individual freedom and opportunity. Responsible investment will give future students cause to be proud of Harvard's role in the global economy...
...make him look good on film? Not quite. "As the police were dragging me away and throwing me into their car," says Garity, "he pulled me aside and said, 'They never would have got me in that car. They never could have held me down.' I had to remind him it was a film and the editing room would still make him look tough...
...Mandela and Jiang remind us of a simple fact: When we do grow old, there will indeed be thousands of people scattered around the world who will have met us, whose lives we will have touched, for whom our own lives have been either a blessing or a curse. They may never meet one another, but they are our legacy; it is they who will beat their way in to protest against us or to cheer for us or to award us their honorary degrees. Because they remind us of this fact, we are privileged to have famous people join...
...greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities. While in all parts of the world progress is being made in entrenching democratic forms of governance, we constantly need to remind ourselves that the freedoms which democracy brings will remain empty shells if they are not accompanied by real and tangible improvements in the material lives of the millions of ordinary citizens of those countries...
...months that the President was lying when he denied an affair, a failing that they have always distinguished from his conduct in office. But that may not have prepared voters for the experience of paging through the sad, smutty chronicle that Starr has provided in his effort to remind voters that this was no ordinary case of adultery, that the lies Clinton told came in front of a judge and jury. Many will throw down the text in disgust, both at what the President did with Monica Lewinsky and what Starr did to expose...