Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tough to resist the ray race. Few of us do. We act in plays, we write for The Crimson, we serve on the Undergraduate Council. We run PBH programs, model government simulations, the debate team. We compete, we play politics, we talk strategy, we brownnose. And we worry far more than a college student should...
...primitive and barbaric. Relatives who have left villages for the city and return to show off their wealth and status also influence the young. Girls encounter educated women who work as clerks and are exempt from the backbreaking hauling done by their mothers' generation. How can these youngsters resist the allure of modern life? How can they make an informed judgment about which of the old ways should be respected and maintained...
...have this feeling [in the American educational system] of this strong urge not to miss the latest political fashion, which I resist," Bois says. This is a resistance, Bois adds, that is based in part on his early training with the very theorists who occupy the current vogue. As a student at L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, Bois received a master's degree and a Ph.D. under the tutelage of Roland Barthes, a French structuralist, and art historian Hubert Damisch...
...believe most of us are basically honest people. If we are expected to hold respected and trustworthy positions when we graduate, we should be held to the same standards now. Judging by the scandals that daily fill the front page, learning to resist the temptation of breaking the rules may be as an important a lesson as anything we learn in class...
...Mike Hall, 14, was playing cop -- but the blue-and-white Gran Fury police car he was sitting in was no toy. The driver, patrolman Rick Coleman, had just hauled over a truck for driving without lights. As Coleman climbed out to question the trucker, his passenger couldn't resist temptation. He flicked on the car's red spotlight and played the beam up and down the side of a darkened warehouse...